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thinking hiking feet-and-walking
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. Charles Dickens
thinking vanity
None of us are so much praised or censured as we think. Charles Caleb Colton
thinking two glory
There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
thinking enemy frankness
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
thinking people remember
A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking daring finished
Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.
thinking mind wish
I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking words-of-wisdom secret
Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?
arrogance modesty false-modesty
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. David Mitchell
arrogance british tricks
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. Catherine Drinker Bowen
arrogance concern property rights
Where there is appreciation, there is courtesy, there is concern for the rights and property of others. Without appreciation, there is arrogance and evil. Gordon Hinckley
arrogance want kind
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. Edgar Friedenberg
arrogance computer mets
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras. Alan Kay
arrogance behavior refrain
We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior. Chen Shui-bian
arrogance covering excuse
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies. Bob Lewis
arrogance firsts claims
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. Benoit Mandelbrot
arrogance blair breath bring fresh government happened keen met open power purposeful reform tony
When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism. Rory Bremner
arrogant chip shoulder
We're not as arrogant as they think we are. And I don't think they have a chip on their shoulder as much. Jamie Morris
arrogant i-can knows
I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. Bram Cohen
arrogant ceremony submit
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. Blaise Pascal
arrogant used used-to-be
They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant. Arthur Boyd
arrogant spirit geek
Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. Bruce Sterling
arrogant dream execution hope mentally next question six whether
We're always prepared, whether mentally or physically. It's just a question of execution. And I think they're still cautiously optimistic. My hope and dream is for them to become arrogant in the next five, six weeks.
arrogant listen mixed prepared sends
She sends mixed signals, 'yes, I'm prepared to listen to you', but also arrogant and not give-and-take. Steve Harris
arrogant falling house looked minimum restore stop taking
'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away. Bronson Pinchot
arrogant assumed insane jagger life people since teenage telling
It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway! Brian Eno