Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me

Plautus

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

John Wells

One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.

Jeffrey Immelt

I think there's a sense of arrogance and entitlement here, a complacency in the United States.

Kurt Vonnegut

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.

Mark Twain

My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water

Jerome Forneris

My career could have ended on a play that I went out on the field arrogant, I did some things I never should do. I learned a valuable lesson in that. If you go out there with a sense of arrogance and you haven't accomplished anything, you set yourself up for failure. Looking at that and looking at her miscue, it brought back some painful memories for me.

Robert Winston

I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that they can run the universe.

Ivo Daalder

The whole reason for a threat is to show there is a line. And show that the U.S. will respond if he crosses it.

Robert Ashley

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

Chinese Proverbs

Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day

Friedrich Nietzsche

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

Johnathon Schaech

The '7500' is with Leslie Bibb. It's a big ensemble with a lot of really good people. I play the pilot of the 747 that something happens on as it crosses the Pacific. It's going to do what 'Jaws' did to the ocean. Not make people want to get on!

Patty Spector

Whoever crosses the line is the overall winner. Whether its kayak or canoe, that's the overall winner. There aren't two overall winners.

Elena Satine

I love dark humor that crosses the line and makes you say, 'That's so wrong!' And that's 'Family Guy' to me.

Dan Haren

When you give up four runs to the Yankees, and it's the third inning at 4-0, the thought crosses your mind that the game could be over. You tell yourself it's over or you try to fight back. I sat in the dugout after the third inning and I had thrown 66 pitches. I felt I had about 40 pitches left, and if I could put up three zeros, we'd still have a chance.

Dalai Lama

I am just one human being.

Markus Zusak

I am hunted by humans

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Nick Hornby

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

Karen Joy Fowler

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

Ben Affleck

I'm human, just like anybody else.