Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing. . . I am a recording instrument. . . I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity". . . Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function. . . I am not an entertainer.
Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum so unreservedly. . . . And 2nd, it is not clear to me why, if continual physical conditions are of so little moment as you suppose, variation should occur at all. However, I must read the book two or three times more before I presume to begin picking holes.
I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.
Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.
There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is.
I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.
I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.
Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?