Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doris Kearns Goodwin

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

Rory Bremner

When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.

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.

Vanna Bonta

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

Emily Dickinson

Nods from the Gilded pointers --/ Nods from the Seconds slim --/ Decades of Arrogance between/ The Dial life --/ And Him --

Many in the unions have demonstrated a level of arrogance and even greed.

Charles Spurgeon

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

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

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

Alice Lowe

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

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?'

We weren't angry. The captain kept cutting us off. He had a smirk on his face. His arrogance was awful.

We were young and had the arrogance of youth, nevertheless when you look at the issues we fought over, I think by and large we were right.

UCLA plays with a winning mentality. They know how to win games. They have that attitude, an arrogance, to come up with wins like this one.

When people get successful, when people find that they are making a lot of money, it tends to bring with it certain things like arrogance and greed. There was a suspension of disbelief in the 1990s. No one wanted to roil the waters.

WHen PeopLE Cant ReSPect The DEedS You HAve DOne FOr tHEm.... ItS hiGh Tym yoU taUght THem the GeNuiNE MEaninG oF DIsREsPEct........!!!!!

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.

Jenny Holzer

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.

Howard Fast

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

Michael W. Smith

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

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.

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

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

Tim McDonald

They're trying to woo black votes to the Republican Party, ... It's turning African-Americans off. Now everybody sees the arrogance and the hypocrisy of this administration. This is nothing personal. It's his policies -- in direct opposition to what Dr. King lived and died for.

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.

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.

Mickey Edwards

This is at a scale that is really shocking. There is a certain kind of arrogance that in the past you might not have had. They were so supremely confident that there didn't seem to be any kind of moral compass here.

Morshed Khan

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

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.