Superiors Quotes - Page 11

• Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Dream, Atheist, Children

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Reading, People

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.58, Bantam

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• 'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.'
  Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'

  Jane Austen

  Moving, Believe, Expression

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 31, 1813.

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• Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.

  Susan Sontag

  Names, Justice, Acting

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.184, Macmillan

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• Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your belief and others will listen." he continued at a slower pace, " of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. thats your most powerfull too to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. that is all i have to say"Garrow to Roran p 64

  Christopher Paolini

  Revenge, Heart, Advice

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• There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

  James A. Baldwin

  Ideas, People, Wish

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Patriotic, Equality, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.

  John Steinbeck

  Animal, Want Something, Giving

  John Steinbeck (1993). “The Pearl”, p.31, Penguin

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• 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?

  Ian Mcewan

  Reading, Book, Home

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• What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Chinese

  Confucius, William Jennings, Epiphanius Wilson (1983). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Random House Value Pub

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• Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.

  Fumiko Enchi

  Opponents, Gains, Christ

  Fumiko Enchi (2015). “Masks”, p.124, Vintage

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• Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.

  Robert Henri

  Children, Dignity, Feels

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog....Only in the novel are all things given full play.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Play, Novelists

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• The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs—it's been documented—discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is." So?" So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Powerful, Voice

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.168, Anchor

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• ...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Self Confidence, Pride

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• It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.” Why, Gillian, it’s that very ability that makes us so superior.

  Victoria Alexander

  Humility, Quality, Males

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• Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

  Michael Crichton

  Exercise, Harassment, Subordinates

  Michael Crichton (1996). “Michael Crichton: Two Complete Novels”, Wings

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• Let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.

  Christopher Paolini

  Life, Revenge, Heart

  "Eragon". Book by Christopher Paolini, 2003.

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• It grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.

  William P. Young

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, books.google.ru. June 20, 2008.

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• No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of nature.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Independent, Men, Miracle

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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• . . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

  Richard Paul Evans

  War, Character, Winter

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• Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

  Jean Webster

  Mother, Father, Hair

  Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a “superior position” that she wouldn’t need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don’t, nothing will work out the way they want.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Work Out, People, Trying

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, May, Every Man

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• Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.

  Noah Webster

  Army, Gun, Power

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.43

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