#arrogance

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#best #clever #condescension #humble #humility

You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand? ↗

— Cinda Williams Chima

#raisa #strength #arrogance

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#assistance #controlled #curtailed #fall #foreign

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance. ↗

— Kim Weston

#arrogance #artist #certain #you

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#arrogance #inspirational #problem #simple #imagination

I could smell an arrogance, it was my cheap fragrance. ↗

— Toba Beta

#cheap #fragrance #life #simple-living #life

The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there’s arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#quarter-life-crisis #success #twenties #writing #life

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#accompanies #always #arrogance #assume #choice

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #pride #religion #religious-leadership #the-sin-of-pride

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway. ↗

— Stephen King

#age