Quotes About Superiority

You're so used to feeling superior that you've forgotten there are people who might know something you don't.

Oh, well," said Mrs. Hale's husband, with good-natured superiority, "women are used to worrying over trifles." The two women moved a little closer together.

It has always been my belief that Protestants, born with innate knowledge of all things botanical, cannot help but think less of you if you have to ask.

Most people think they're smarter than me," said Rodriguez. He winked at me. "And that's what gives me the edge.

Well, I don't have much competition here." "You don't have much competition anywhere.

One look tells you ours have had more food, nicer clothing, and better dental care," said Dean Highbottom. "Assuming anything more, a physical, mental, or especially a moral superiority, would be a mistake. That sort of hubris almost finished us off in the war.

No soporto a la gente que se cree moralmente superior. Nadie la soporta.

In any scenario, it's preferable to have the upper hand, to be the victor rather than the defeated.

Because you have a weakness for beautiful things, and I don't," I say with an air of superiority, "They would lure you into their Capitol ways, and you'd be lost entirely." "Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness," Peeta points out, "Except perhaps when it comes to you.

To imagine that on either side we lack intelligence, strength, or courage would be a mistake." "But surely, you're not comparing our children to theirs?" asked Lucky. "One look tells you ours are a superior breed." "One look tells you ours have had more food, nicer clothing, and better dental care," said Dean Highbottom. "Assuming anything more, a physical, mental, or especially a moral superiority, would be a mistake.

But surely, you're not comparing our children to theirs?" asked Lucky. "One look tells you ours are a superior breed." "One look tells you ours have had more food, nicer clothing, and better dental care," said Dean Highbottom. "Assuming anything more, a physical, mental, or especially a moral superiority, would be a mistake. That sort of hubris almost finished us off in the war.

Because you have a weakness for beautiful thing and I don't" I say with an air of superiority "They would lure you into their Capitol ways and you'd be lost entirely." "Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness,

Too many Europeans interpreted military superiority as intellectual and even biological superiority.

This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; none is greater than man. Even the Devas (gods) will have to come down again and attain to salvation through a human body. Man alone attains to perfection, not even the Devas.

There may be a better one somewhere, but I haven't caught her at it.

It had always been about America, but now, sorry, they lag behind us. English football's time is coming.

Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.

People feel deep anxiety finding out that someone they thought was stupid is actually more intelligent than they are.

There is something nonphilosophical about investing one's pride and ego into a "my house/ library/ car is bigger than that of others in my category"—it is downright foolish to claim to be first in one's category all the while sitting on a time bomb.

Once in a while you encounter members of the human species with so much intellectual superiority that they can change their minds effortlessly.

gives me some form of advantage.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

Silence was all it took to turn servitude into superiority. The servant became the master, and the world became all about pleasing the Thunderhead.

Those looking for a tale of cultural superiority can find it in zero; those looking for failure can find it in the wheel. Neither line of argument is useful, though. What