Quotes About Arrogance

Now, for the first time, the President began to look genuinely powerful, even dangerous. This was a classic political coalition: it had worked in Medieval France. It was the long-forgotten bottom of the heap, allied with the formerly feeble top, to scare the hell out of the arrogant and divisive middle.

Casual?" Elam halted and crossed his arms. "My good horse, there's a big difference between casual and confident. I am aware of the danger, but......I want to maintain a confident mind-set in full assurance of faith, otherwise my heart might melt within me." ..... "Take care that your confidence does not swell into arrogance, for that is the downfall of every man of pride.

Baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverise the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make.

The United States wore empire on its brow

Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; He held the Human Race in Scorn.

The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

Beware, Diomedês! Forbear, Diomedês! Do not try to put yourself on a level with the gods; that is too high for a man's ambition. The immortal gods are one race, men that walk upon the earth are another.

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

It was borrowed time anyway—the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of a grand duc and the casualness of chorus girls.

Listening to him, I realized how long it had been since I'd felt like I had the world by the balls, how many quick birthdays had gone by since that first year in Europe when I was so ignorant and so confident that every splinter of luck made me feel like a roaring champion.

Like many who have little to say, he said too much, interrupting without courtsey and favoring with the benefit of his wisdom those who did not desire it.

An in experienced traveler would imagine that their land contains the finest buildings, the biggest towns, the richest, best-fed, happiest people in the world.

Arrogance. We think we've been lovingly placed on this tiny spec of space dust by a benevolent father figure whose got a super special plan for each one of our lives, and afterlives. We also think He loves one particular group more than any other. Of course, which group that is depends on whether you're talking to Jews, Christians, or Muslims. Even

The Roman Empire collapsed due to war, overexpansion and rampant corruption. The British Empire dissolved due to cultural arrogance and imperialistic hubris. Sadly, as we devolve from Democracy to Idiocracy, America may become the first world power to crumble under the weight of its own stupidity.

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?

El mercado sigue siendo el principal enemigo de la cohesión social (y de la cohesión mundial), pues su lógica sólo concibe una sociedad dividida en dos grupos: los solventes y los insolventes. Estos últimos, que ni producen ni consumen, no le interesan en absoluto; están, por decirlo así, fuera de juego. Por naturaleza, el mercado es un productor de desigualdades, lo que no le impide exhibir una arrogancia pasmosa.

Help me, I can't breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room.

Would you like to borrow a pair of my panties to wave around at the next Council meeting to get the point across?" His eyes flashed. "Got any to spare?" I could've picked somebody rational. But no, I had to fall in love with this arrogant idiot. Come to the Keep with me, be my princess. Mourn me when your crazy dad kills me. Yeah, right.

Do you like my working persona? Saiman asked softly. An aesthetically pleasing combination of intelligence and elegance, wouldn't you say? Aren't we pleased with ourselves. Are you Chinese, Japanese, half-white? I can't tell, your features are neither here nor there. I'm inscrutable, mysterious and intellectual. He forgot conceited. Did you have any trouble getting that ego through the door? Saiman didn't even blink. Not in the least.

Oh, so it was a lifesaving kiss. Well, if you want to put it that way... Arrogant jackass. Do me a favor: next time you think my life needs saving, just let me die. I'd really prefer it. He laughed. She shook her head. I'm going to the front with the boys. Don't follow me. You and your paramedic kisses need time to cool off.

Hugh should've brought a banner with I AM BAD stitched on it in gold.

I am a god. I don't do fair.

It's easy to get swept up in the trappings of that sort of lifestyle, but I've been doing it for long enough that I know how easy it is to fall victim to that sort of arrogance and cockiness that celebrity culture can bring about, in young men especially.