Famous Quotes & Sayings

When people get successful, when people find that they are making a lot of money, it tends to bring with it certain things like arrogance and greed. There was a suspension of disbelief in the 1990s. No one wanted to roil the waters.

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Becca Fitzpatrick

Arrogance can be deadly.” The corners of his mouth crept up. “But you didn’t hear me say that.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Arrogance can be deadly.

I think there's a sense of arrogance and entitlement here, a complacency in the United States.

Robert Winston

I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that they can run the universe.

I think people enjoy pomposity and arrogance as long as it's pointed at you.

Kurt Vonnegut

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.

Jose Aznar

President Bush is as interested as I am in having the greatest possible number of countries contributing valuably to the reconstruction of the area, each of us with our own responsibilities. ... I don't think that arrogance is the best companion.

Mark Twain

My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water

My career could have ended on a play that I went out on the field arrogant, I did some things I never should do. I learned a valuable lesson in that. If you go out there with a sense of arrogance and you haven't accomplished anything, you set yourself up for failure. Looking at that and looking at her miscue, it brought back some painful memories for me.

The arrogance displayed by the Duke players is so disturbing. The fact that so many athletes have decided to withhold information really says something about their moral compass.

We have not seen any glimpse of his legendary, hair- trigger temper or the arrogance that personified his conduct at Enron.

Joe Gill

Both of them were very classy when they played here - never any baloney, never any arrogance. They just came to play. You couldn't get them out, but you appreciated how they played.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

George Crabbe

Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.

Keyshawn Johnson

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

Os Guinness

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

Derrick Mason

Coach Billick, he just has a personality about him that you don't understand unless you're playing for him, ... He's all about his players. Did I think it was arrogance when I first got here? Yes. But now that I am here, I truly see what type of coach he is.

Mark Twain

A scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Michael W. Smith

After 13 years and four failed mandates, the era of Liberal arrogance is ending.

There's such an arrogance to savers sometimes. And I'm a saver, so I can say that.

At that time, the United States was at the height of its arrogance and our country also was not yet ready to go to the UN Security Council.

And to be perfectly blunt, I think only fools would bet the lives of other men's sons and daughters on their own arrogance and call this force a cakewalk or a speed bump or something that you can dismiss.

Yasser Arafat

This brutality, this arrogance is moved by a supremacist mentality, a mentality of racial discrimination.

This is an artificial, 15 percent criteria, ... The whole arrogance and smugness of establishing this threshold, it's a discrimination issue and a fairness issue.

This has been a summit of selfishness, arrogance and lies.

Tim McDonald

They're trying to woo black votes to the Republican Party, ... It's turning African-Americans off. Now everybody sees the arrogance and the hypocrisy of this administration. This is nothing personal. It's his policies -- in direct opposition to what Dr. King lived and died for.

They took a story that was going to be laugh lines for late-night comedians and turned it into a front-page story. There was something in their attitude there that I think is going to have a lingering effect, about how a certain arrogance seemed to have crept into the White House complex.

You played with a guy who had a great career in the NBA, and the thing I like about Rik most of all is he is just a nice guy. Never did he ever display a touch of arrogance to his teammates. He was always there for everybody. I still talk to him. We're still friends. NBA meant nothing to our friendship, it never changed.

Mickey Edwards

This is at a scale that is really shocking. There is a certain kind of arrogance that in the past you might not have had. They were so supremely confident that there didn't seem to be any kind of moral compass here.

They have a very quiet arrogance about them, like they expected to come in and do this,

Jerry Pournelle

The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have been since the secular authorities stopped enforcing the local bishop's decrees of anathema.