Quotes about arrogance
arrogance age interest
Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself. Pete Townshend
arrogance instruments collapse
How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette) Robert Ludlum
arrogance unhappy arrogant
To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength. Samuel Johnson
arrogance use world
Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned. Thomas Bernhard
arrogance bishops kind
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. Jerry Pournelle
arrogance brutality fierce
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others. George Stevens
arrogance-of-youth people said
I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth. Francesca Annis
arrogance empties face false gut learned pride punch realize rebuilding truly
Sometimes you have to be empty. That is one thing I have truly learned in all the rebuilding projects. At some point, you have got to take a punch to the gut that just empties all the arrogance or pride or false hopes, and then you realize we better face up to who we are. Dick Bennett
arrogance assurance control government majority prime took
So much for the Prime Minister's assurance there would be no Government arrogance after it took majority control on Tuesday, Bob Brown
arrogance bloke confidence interviews judging people scared thinking
Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant. Alice Lowe
arrogance dismiss
It's an interesting kind of arrogance to dismiss something that you don't know a lot about.
arrogance assertion cram easy impossible nine support
It's not easy to cram so much idiocy, mendacity and arrogance into nine words. ... Dean's assertion is impossible to support rationally. James Taranto
arrogance consuming democracy easy fires peace stupidity
How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?
arrogance nerves yiddish
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever Howard Fast
arrogance use rooms
Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency. Morley Safer
arrogance swagger definitions
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. Keyshawn Johnson
arrogance mystery forget
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us. Os Guinness
arrogance privilege needs
The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist. Mason Cooley
arrogance tipping be-kind
[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants. Sherman Alexie
arrogance honest modesty
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty. Frank Lloyd Wright
arrogance littles presumption
Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little. George Crabbe
arrogance nuclear example
This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power. Joe Biden
arrogance lucky today
My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me. Jenny Holzer
arrogance-of-youth arrogance firsts
When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth. Joely Richardson
arrogance fool farce
O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce. Michel de Montaigne
arrogance merit offensive
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. Friedrich Nietzsche
arrogance modesty stealth
Modesty is only arrogance by stealth. Terry Pratchett
arrogance ifs
It's only arrogance if you're wrong. Simone de Beauvoir
arrogance debt economy
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled. Ross Perot
arrogance secret knows
The taint of arrogance will I not know... Walter Russell
arrogance together may
Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed. Saint Augustine
arrogance shame ends
What begins in arrogance often ends in shame. Walter Russell Mead