#superior

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#bent #breeding #caliber #good #good breeding

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. ↗

— George Byron

#any #confirms #day #every #every day

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior. ↗

— William Collins

#fault #finds #his #mistrust #never

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#always #been #come #ever #i

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#avid #difficult #drive #faith #further

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#different #dogs #eating #else #enjoy

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#had #lie #long #long run #right

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agree #intellect #mark #pessimism #superior

When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#did #fighter #fired #general #give

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#fellows #intelligence #only #our #pretend