Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Preston

Hubris and science are incompatible.

David Foster Wallace

I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.

Ian Williams

I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

Kevin Spacey

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

Garrett Hardin

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

Nelson Mandela

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

Ralph Ellison

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

Dan Smith

The reality is much like you've heard about the Jordan River. There are some not-so-good things in that water that could be potentially dangerous to our divers.

Dean Steward

The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places and all of these guys - white guys - are a small minority and they're just trying to survive.

Dean Steward

The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places, and all of these guys -- white guys -- are a small minority and they're just trying to survive.

Bruce Bochy

We know how dangerous he is. And we don't want to make a mistake and find out.

Jim Jordan

Ultimately, voters are going to decide a small-town physician from a small and atypical state is probably not qualified to lead this nation in a dangerous world.

Alain Robert

Life has to be dangerous.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

Todd Matthews

We've already had some dangerous situations, and I am really dreading March.

Todd Matthews

We've already had a dangerous situation in January with a number of grass fires. But the month I dread is March.