Presomption Quotes & Sayings

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions. — Satya Nadella

The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here — Herb Caen

We're in the business of melancholia
and we are married to our work. — Casey Renee Kiser

Hen Maistre adopts Bossuet's bold idea that "the heretic is he who has personal
ideas" - in other words, ideas that have no reference to either a social or a religious tradition - he provides
the formula for the most ancient and the most modern of conformities. — Albert Camus

An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry ... one of them was Dr. Bernstein. I had the good fortune to play him in the first round., and beat him in such fashion as to obtain the Rothschild prize for the most brilliant game ... a profound feeling of respect for my ability remained throughout the rest of the contest. — Jose Raul Capablanca

A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom. — Hosea Ballou

People entered the park and became polite and cozy and fakey to each other because the atmosphere of the park made them that way. In the entire time he had lived within a hundred miles of it he had visited it only once or twice. — Robert M. Pirsig

Back pocket Richie took a flattened can which had once held Del Monte pineapple chunks. There was a ragged hole about two inches in diameter through — Stephen King

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper. — Samuel Johnson

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is. — Charles De Lint

The unconscious mind is coextensive with the universe. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too
a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing. — Angela Lansbury

Struggle of power is natural in human because with power their individuality prevails over others. — Zaman Ali