Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Liu

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

John Calipari

Not an arrogance, because that gets away from you. The swagger that says, 'You may beat us, but you better come out swinging.' But it is not his swagger, it is our swagger, and he has to get everybody believing. 'Can (Washington) help me be that way?'

Dedrick L.

Arrogance is worse than ignorance, seeing as ignorance can be cured, but arrogance must be purged.

Toba Beta

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses. It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.

Rachel Caine

Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?

Pete Townshend

Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.

Pearl S. Buck

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

Terry Pratchett

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

Shunryu Suzuki

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

Domanick Davis

It's real frustrating, I'm not going to lie. We keep practicing so hard, then keep losing. We just have to find a way, we can't start pointing fingers.

Larry Harris

Then she starts pointing towards me and shooting and I was shooting back to her.

Tim Ritchey

That is the race I've been pointing for.

Peter Young

All the indicators are pointing in the right direction.

Sylvester Stallone

Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth.

Rumi

I can't stop pointing to the beauty.

Claudio Piron

Overall, the long-term trend is going to worsen. All indicators are pointing to a possible recession.

Robert Barany

As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment.

Jeff Bower

We took a step back on offense. We weren't very sharp at anything on that side of the ball.

Steve Roberts

He was real sharp for the most part.

Brad Richards

I can just tell, personally, that we're just not as sharp as we were in the past,

Sergei Fedorov

I'm not as sharp as I'd like to be,

Bob Williams

And all the new stuff has no chains, no hooks; everything is welded or on bearings so there's no sharp corners. And it's all low-maintenance.

Margaret Cavendish

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd

Brett Tomko

This is as sharp as I've been all year, ... made my slider better, my splitter better, made everything better.

Jerry Halstead

Dunn was sharp today in going the distance.

Joe Villani

There's pretty sharp cutoff of where it's snowing.

Nancy Cartwright

I will not do that thing with my tongue

Rex Stout

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

Sarah Addison Allen

He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.

Jonathan Swift

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Moliere

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

B. C. Forbes

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.

Plutarch

A fool cannot hold his tongue.