Presentment Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes one mistake ruins the whole thing. — Janice Liang

Alexander once made himself supremely ridiculous. Coming across Epicurus's Principal Doctrines, the most admirable of his books, as you know, with its terse presentment of his wise conclusions, he brought it into the middle of the marketplace, there burned it on a figwood fire for the sins of its author, and cast its ashes into the sea. He issued an oracle on the occasion:
"The dotard's doctrines to the flames be given."
The fellow had no conception of the blessings conferred by that book upon its readers, of the peace, tranquility, and independence of mind it produces, of the protection it gives against terrors, phantoms, and marvels, vain hopes and insubordinate desires, of the judgment and candor that it fosters, or of its true purging of the spirit, not with torches and squills and such rubbish, but with right reason, truth, and frankness. — Lucian Of Samosata

I find it impossible not to believe that there's something in Irish blood that favors their power with words. — Jim Harrison

So far I have felt like a very inept slapstick performer." "Inept slapstick? Isn't that a bit redundant? — Neal Stephenson

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The stories are arranged in this order. I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness and with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter in the presentment, still more to deform, whatever he has seen and heard. — James Joyce

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought — Ernst Mach

I swear to you, I will rip this world and every other one apart to get to you if you need me. — Liz Reinhardt

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. — Augustus Hare

If you are in with God you are out with the world. — Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

Now, what is forbidden to the summoner, or any wizard, is to call a living spirit. We can call to them, yes. We can send to them a voice or a presentment, a seeming, of ourself. But we do not summon them, in spirit or in flesh, to come to us. Only the dead may we summon. Only the shadows. You can see why this must be. To summon a living man is to have entire power over him, body and mind. No one, no matter how strong or wise or great, can rightly own and use another. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar. — Walter J. Phillips

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. — Robert A. Heinlein

Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about. — Jeffrey Lewis

And then she kisses me. It's the kind of kiss that makes me lose track of everything, and so it may take hours or minutes by the time we break apart. — Jennifer Niven

I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis. — Mike Lee

One genius is about all a house will hold. — Isabel Paterson

Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought. — Ernst Mach

Celebrity was fun, and I had a good time. — Mitch Gaylord

I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense. — Carl Hagelin

When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!'
Christ what an image. — Louise Rennison