Quotes About Arrogance

don't waste your time being impressed by people (usually men) who are already adequately impressed by themselves.

Jonakin päivänä, Catherine sanoi kylmästi, – lankeatte vielä polvillenne eteeni pyytäen anteeksi sanojanne, Arnaud de Montsalvy, Chataignerin herra. Mutta ette saa minulta anteeksiantoa ettekä armoa.

Lo que pasa es que se creen sabios -dice de golpe-. Se creeen sabios porque han juntado un montón de libros y se los han comido.

Writing checks with his mouth that his ass could never hope to cover.

He still had the young person's predisposition to regard the world as a series of vaguely irritating problems created by people less cool and smart than he was.

Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance. But

Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance.

But as love turns to grief, and grief becomes anger, so must anger yield to thought, in order to know itself. My symbolic properties were inarguable. Made by science, I was a perfect industrial product, the very embodiment of mankind's indefatigable faith in itself. Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance.

Even geniuses can be A class assholes.

The people turn out to be—well, people; a collective noun for all those individual men and women, none of them perfect, some of them downright vicious, most of them monumentally stupid. As stupid as the emperor, the great hereditary lords, the priestly hierarchs, the General Staff and the Lords of the Admiralty, the merchant princes and the organised crime barons.

He bore a certain "hubris," she thought, of the kind that carries with it the seeds of its own destruction. Everything about Robert's personality— from his abrupt, jerky way of walking to such little things as the making of a salad dressing—displayed, she thought, "a great need to declare his preeminence.

his behavior in stormy seas struck some friends as an example of Robert's deeply ingrained arrogance, or perhaps a not very surprising extension of his inner resiliency. He had an irresistible urge to flirt with danger.

He is doubtless very gifted but completely without mental discipline. He's outwardly very modest, but inwardly very arrogant." Ehrenfest's reply is lost, but Born's next letter is indicative: "Your information about Oppenheimer was very valuable to me. I know that he is a very fine and decent man, but you can't help it if someone gets on your nerves.

Contempt, disdain, scorn: these emotions were stops along a closed loop that originated and terminated in a sense of superiority.

Now I can let these dream killers kill my self esteem-or use my arrogance as steam to power my dreams!!!

I'm the f*cking end-all, be-all of music.

Pride goeth before destruction," he quoted, "and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

When you're young and arrogant and cocky and feel you're invincible, you say a lot of mean things to a lot of people because you think you're better, you don't need to deal with people.

French arrogance is no longer in fashion in Italy.

I was disrespectful everywhere: U.S., Italy, France.

The difference between God and Reggie Jackson is that God doesn't think he's Reggie Jackson.

You going to call me arrogant for believing in myself? Come on! It's a competitive sport. Rappin' is the closest thing to boxing. Jay-Z said that. You gotta fight every day.