Top 118 Presumptuous Quotes & Sayings

It's a presumptuous thing to write one's autobiography, but this is really an effort in the deepest sense to explore the struggle of a tortured individual to be himself in a hostile society.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

If I can say so without sounding presumptuous, I want to model women being collaborative instead of competitive.

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

I'm not being presumptuous, I hope, when I say that 'The Crown' is little bit like 'The Godfather.' It is essentially about a family in power and survival.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that.

People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves.

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.

I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what you can be. As long as you can blame everything on some unseen deity, you don’t ever have to be responsible for your own behavior.

I don't mean to be presumptuous, but I liken myself to the robber barons.

It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

It's presumptuous for us to think we are the only beings in the cosmos.

Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.

I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.

While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.

I'll play for whoever drafts me. I'm just not going to be presumptuous about what they want to do. It's the draft.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids.

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

Take care. -If you do not speak- I shall claim you as my own in some presumptuous way. -Send me away at once, if I must go; -Margaret!-

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.

We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.

I never declared I wanted to be an astronaut, as I considered that was presumptuous.

It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.

It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.

I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

It's not going to be my political raison d'etre, I think it would be presumptuous to take a leadership role. But I would want to make sure that we support equality.

Communities now find themselves in possession of improvements [resulting from the WPA] which even in 1929 they would have thought themselves presumptuous to dream of... [but] everywhere there had been an overhauling of the word presumptuous. We are beginning to wonder if it is not presumptuous to take for granted that some people should have much, and some should have nothing; that some people are less important than others and should die earlier; that the children of the comfortable should be taller and fatter, as a matter of right, than the other children of the poor.

Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.

For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.

The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.

God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.