Top Presumption Quotes
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.
Esther Dyson
The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.
James L. Buckley
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Golda Meir
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Hesiod
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It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber 
57% of people like this quote
I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.
Esther Dyson
53% of people like this quote
The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.
James L. Buckley
53% of people like this quote
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Golda Meir
53% of people like this quote
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Hesiod
52% of people like this quote
Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
Anne Seward
50% of people like this quote
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
Marilyn vos Savant
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Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
Bob Considine
49% of people like this quote
Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.
Scott Brown
48% of people like this quote