Arrogance Quotes - Page 14

• I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity, Guantnamo Bay and all the rest of it. But the poems at the start of District and Circle Anahorish 1944, The Aerodromearent particularly aimed as criticism. On the contrary, there's a recognition of the big contribution to world order made in Europe during World War II.

  Seamus Heaney

  War, Lying, Order

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• [Donald] Trump's behavior during the presidential campaign was often erratic, seemingly based on discernable personality traits, including narcissism, arrogance, impulsiveness, and a lack of predictability.

  David Krieger

  Presidential, Personality, Campaigns

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you want to be treated like a queen then start acting like one. No arrogance or games. Be humble, graceful, kind & loving.

  Behdad Sami

  Queens, Humble, Games

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• One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.

  Theodor Haecker

  Writing, Men, Giving

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• Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at a rally in Harlem ... Gore went on to praise Dean for taking a tough anti-war stance before the invasion of Iraq and he praised Dean supporters in hopes that will ease his concerns over lack of foreign policy experience, and his lack of support among blacks and Latinos, and his hot temperament, and perceived arrogance, and policy flip-flops, and campaign glitches. Well, there's a lot going on here.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Iraq, Support

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• Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.

  Mariah Nelson

  Sports, Mirrors, Romance

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• Become a "learning organization". Shuck your arrogance - "if it isn't our idea, it can't be that good" - and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.

  Tom Peters

  Organization, Ideas, Copycats

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• I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.

  Daniel Craig

  Believe, Actors, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The arrogance of those who come later preens itself with the notion that the past is dead and gone. The modern mind can no longer think thought, only can locate it in time and space. The activity of thinking decays to the passivity of classifying.

  Russell Jacoby

  Past, Thinking, Space

  "Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing". Book by Russell Jacoby, 1975.

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• Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance.

  Seth Roberts

  Media, Stupidity, Stuff

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• You know; when I look at the night sky and I see this enormous splendor of stars and galaxies, I sometimes ask the question, well how many worlds are we talking about? Well do the math, there are about 100 billion galaxies that are in the visible universe and each galaxy in turn contains about 100 billion stars, you multiply and you get about ten billion trillion stars. Well I think it is the height of arrogance to believe that we are alone in the universe, my attitude is that the universe is teaming, teaming with different kinds of life forms

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Attitude, Believe

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• After I began working, I realised there's no end line. I believe that money has nothing to do with your personal success. On the face of it, I'm the biggest capitalist of all. I have all the riches. I'm the living proof of what stardom should be in material terms. But I've never sold my soul. I've not done anything which I didn't want to do. I've not done films for money. I'm not saying this with arrogance but I've never asked for a film.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Believe, Soul, Done

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• I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Honest, Modesty, Hypocritical

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• There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

  Pope Francis

  Pride, Vanity, Church

  "Pope Francis follows in namesake's footsteps and tells Church to focus on the poor" by Steve Doohan, www.mirror.co.uk. October 5, 2013.

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• Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.

  Toni Morrison

  War, Slavery, Able

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Self, Age, Flaws

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• In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both activities produce a sense of awe and a curious mixture of humility and arrogance in their practitioners. All great scientists are inspired by the subtlety and beauty of the natural world that they are seeking to understand. Each new subatomic particle, every unexpected object, produces delight and wonderment. In constructing their theories, physicists are frequently guided by arcane concepts of elegance in the belief that the universe is intrinsically beautiful.

  Paul Davies

  Beautiful, Humility, Science

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• To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Kind, Forgiven, Inverse

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.31, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• If you're not mentally tough,
  If nerves undo you instead of focus you,
  If you don't have the inner arrogance
  That you absolutely have what it takes to win,
  If you don't see, in your mind's eye,
  A picture of yourself winning - then you won't win;
  And not because you can't.

  Summer Sanders

  Eye, Winning, Focus

  Summer Sanders (1999). “Champions are Raised, Not Born: How My Parents Made Me a Success”

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• Today I weep for my country. No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. ... Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned. We flaunt our superpower status with arrogance....After war has ended the United States will have to rebuild much more than the country of Iraq. We will have to rebuild America's image around the globe.

  Robert Byrd

  Country, Strong, War

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• An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.

  Kalle Lasn

  Higher Ground, Numbers, People

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• In a world that has gone global, we no longer have a choice. If we don't export freedom, we risk importing the viruses which have corrupted other nations. ... Some critics complained that President Bush was arrogant when he suggested America can and should export freedom to other countries. This implies the people of unfree countries may not wish to be free. Which is the greater arrogance?

  Cal Thomas

  Country, America, People

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• Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.

  Paul Mooney

  White, Self, People

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• Love is the miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. I am not talking about vanity or arrogance . . . for that is not love. It is only fear. I am talking about having a great respect for ourselves and a gratitude for the miracle of our body and our mind.

  Louise Hay

  Gratitude, Love Is, Vanity

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.41, Hay House, Inc

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• My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.

  Jenny Holzer

  Lucky, Today, Should

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