Quotes About Arrogance

To be a writer is a monstrously arrogant act. It presumes that you should be listened to for pages on end... But there is much in the culture to clip the wings of arrogance, mute assertion, and encourage speedy consensus.

As a vocal performance major, I went to school with a lot of singers who were cocky and not very nice.

We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

Senior Tories have exhibited a brand of entitled arrogance that implies that they own Brexit. It seems that anyone else who claims its mantle can be pushed to one side. And that includes voters.

I was a talented egomaniac with a self-esteem problem.

Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

We can barely deal with men who set their own rules; to ask us to accept a woman who is individualistic, passionate, beautiful and yes, possibly annoyingly arrogant, makes us just a little nervous.

I'm bigger than the Beatles!

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief.

That's always been really funny to me - someone who really stridently believes that they're right when they're so wrong in, like, the worst way. Not only do they believe that they're right, but they believe that everyone thinks that they're right, and are comfortable with that.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it… I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic.

By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential by many Alaskans: a large-caliber rifle, map and compass, an ax. This has been regarded as evidence not just of stupidity but of the even greater sin of arrogance.

You people sit in your yamen [headquarters], and your horizon is your window sill,' he went on. `You are ignorant because no one dares to correct you. You might lose face and, what's more, some one might lose his head. You've retreated into your intellectual rat holes, having exposed only a posterior of vanity. Goddamn it, sir, you've all become insufferably stupid!

It's a country of big children, people being naughty behind the teacher's back, people tattling on each other, people getting their dumb certificates for being good socialists. People submitting to the system because they're German and because it's a system. The whole thing was stupid and a lie. But they're not arrogant, not know-it-alls. They give what they have and they take me the way I am.

You seem a little challenged in the entitlement department. I mean, compared to the others.

When human beings try to become more than human, they quickly become less than human.

Bütün bana anlatt?klar?n?zdan, sorular?ma verdiÄŸiniz yan?tlardan, ülkeniz halk?ndan birçoÄŸunun, yeryüzünün en aptal ve en kötü yarat?klar? olduÄŸu sonucunu ç?kar?yorum.

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

It is written that the earth belongs to those who have fair skins and hard but foolish hearts.

you whites are so great that you disdain to remember your enemies.

secrecy is a hotbed of vanity

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).