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.

Yasser Arafat

This brutality, this arrogance is moved by a supremacist mentality, a mentality of racial discrimination.

This is an artificial, 15 percent criteria, ... The whole arrogance and smugness of establishing this threshold, it's a discrimination issue and a fairness issue.

This has been a summit of selfishness, arrogance and lies.

They took a story that was going to be laugh lines for late-night comedians and turned it into a front-page story. There was something in their attitude there that I think is going to have a lingering effect, about how a certain arrogance seemed to have crept into the White House complex.

It's an interesting kind of arrogance to dismiss something that you don't know a lot about.

Tom Brokaw

There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins.

David Mitchell

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Gordon Hinckley

Where there is appreciation, there is courtesy, there is concern for the rights and property of others. Without appreciation, there is arrogance and evil.

Chen Shui-bian

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

Bob Lewis

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

Benoit Mandelbrot

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Edgar Friedenberg

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Mark Twain

A scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

During our timeout with :06 left, Travis told me he wanted the ball. It wasn't said with arrogance. It was just an inner-confidence.

Derrick Mason

Coach Billick, he just has a personality about him that you don't understand unless you're playing for him, ... He's all about his players. Did I think it was arrogance when I first got here? Yes. But now that I am here, I truly see what type of coach he is.

The three hires were brilliant hires from everyone else's view. The sheer arrogance and recklessness of this has divided the union in a way that might be irreparable.

Michael W. Smith

After 13 years and four failed mandates, the era of Liberal arrogance is ending.

Dick Bennett

Sometimes you have to be empty. That is one thing I have truly learned in all the rebuilding projects. At some point, you have got to take a punch to the gut that just empties all the arrogance or pride or false hopes, and then you realize we better face up to who we are.

Bob Brown

So much for the Prime Minister's assurance there would be no Government arrogance after it took majority control on Tuesday,

Woody Allen

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

Morshed Khan

This is not a proposal but an ultimatum that smacks of arrogance of the minority in parliament.

You played with a guy who had a great career in the NBA, and the thing I like about Rik most of all is he is just a nice guy. Never did he ever display a touch of arrogance to his teammates. He was always there for everybody. I still talk to him. We're still friends. NBA meant nothing to our friendship, it never changed.

Alex Salmond

The prime minister has just fallen off the high wire. He is a victim of his own arrogance. He may well be on the way out of office.

And to be perfectly blunt, I think only fools would bet the lives of other men's sons and daughters on their own arrogance and call this force a cakewalk or a speed bump or something that you can dismiss.

Joe Gill

Both of them were very classy when they played here - never any baloney, never any arrogance. They just came to play. You couldn't get them out, but you appreciated how they played.

At that time, the United States was at the height of its arrogance and our country also was not yet ready to go to the UN Security Council.

As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'

Alex Turner

We want to do things our way, and people think it's arrogance, so it's inevitable some people will get tired of us.

We are used to this type of clich? statements by the United States, and also the arrogance that is associated with the statement,

There's such an arrogance to savers sometimes. And I'm a saver, so I can say that.