Arrogant Quotes - Page 3

He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having begun with the arrogant presumption of knowing about God all that one can, they reduce Him to manageable terms and confine Him to a tidy theological box, the dimensions of which conform to their predilections of what a god ought to be and do.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.

Well, the questioner came from Singapore, which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy. And therefore he referred to 15 percent per annum as modest. It's not modest, it's arrogant.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

America can no longer afford to be as arrogant as we've been. We can no longer exempt ourselves from the global family of concern.

I don't mind being accused of being a bad comedian and I don't even mind being accused of being a bad talk-show host, but I never want to be accused of being an arrogant, pompous showbiz asshole.

If there's anything more arrogant than a Marine on a horse, it's one in a plane.

Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.

I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so.

Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world.

It would be really arrogant of us to not have any of the fears.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.