Presumption Quotes

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that. - Hart Crane

What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference. - Christiane Amanpour

We're on the record as saying ... that Mr. Clinton and his surrogates have already engaged in perjury, subornation of perjury and obstruct of justice and that evidence gives us a right to a legal presumption that Mr. Clinton's entire case is weak and unfounded. Therefore, there was error and the case should go to a jury. - Donovan Campbell

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption. - Anne Seward

We would ask that everyone remember and honor the presumption of innocence until otherwise proven. Kevin feels confident that once given the opportunity to defend against this charge, he will be vindicated and his innocence proven. - Kenneth Johnson

We think they are being inappropriately detained. Their presumption of innocence has been eviscerated. They are being punished for a crime they were not convicted of. - Steven Chaykin

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe. - E. L. Doctorow

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. - Tom Stoppard

We can give them a voucher and say you can go anywhere you want to go, and we will support 100 percent fair market value rent for up to 18 months from the date of the hurricane. The big presumption is that where they want to go has housing available. - Brian Sullivan