Arrogant Quotes - Page 4

When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?

Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.

The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.

There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast

I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him - but only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.

Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.

Yes, of course. Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe? Millions of stars, and we're supposed to be the only living creatures? No, there are many things out there, we just don't know.

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.