I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and… — Elizabeth Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
“The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If we are going to have a Fed, it should not fall into the tyranny of experts with the a fatal conceit… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What you believe might be wrong; what you don't believe might be right! Don't be sure of things! Doubt! Investigate! Leave your… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The lessons learned on a pure practical production standpoint were immense. It instilled a faith that you can accomplish what you want… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Gratitude is of the very essence of worship. ... When you walk with gratitude, you do not walk with arrogance and conceit… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with… — Bill W Copy Share Image
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
There are elements of that, where you'll see a scene again and you'll recognize it, but I wouldn't say it's got one… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
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