Quotes About Superiority

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em.

Wherever you can find a honeydew melon, you can find other melons. All other melons are better. There is really no point to having a honeydew melon under any circumstances whatsoever.

She [Anna] was doing what she always did when she saw him [Vronsky]—comparing the image of him in her imagination (incomparably superior, and impossible in reality) with him as he was.

He ended his description of them with these menacing words: "I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men and govern them as I pleased.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person pre-determined to dislike, acknowledge one's superiority.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Sí; la vanidad es, en efecto, una debilidad. Pero en cuanto al orgullo, donde se dé verdadera superioridad de espíritu, estará siempre justificado.

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

She looked down very decidedly upon the Hayters

It was the desire of appearing superior to other people. The motive was too common to be wondered at.

Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

Mas o orgulho, onde quer que haja uma verdadeira superioridade intelectual, o orgulho estará sempre sob uma boa orientação.

There was not one among the whole row of young men who could be compared with him.

Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?—to congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?

The harmony of natural law Ã¢â'¬Â¦ reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

Why don't you see if you can google that Einstein quote while I feed him. It's in his book The World As I See It." While Jane was gone, I looked it up. And there it was, in the book Jane suggested: "The harmony of natural law Ã¢â'¬Â¦ reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to be as good as me, Sweet Thing. Ranger

My father is an equal opportunity bigot. He wouldn't deprive a man of his rights. And he's not a hate-filled man. He simply knows in his heart that Italians are superior, that stereotypes were created by God, and if a person is worth anything at all he drives a Buick.

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

The United States emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented absolute and relative power. It was truly first among unequals.

Our enemies and allies alike must know that aggressors will pay an unspeakable price for challenging the United States. The best way to impose that price is global military dominance.