After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
It's easy to ignore the mess around election do that over here in Germany. It's just a blip on the radar for… — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
It is hubris that has gotten us into trouble in Washington. It is humility, principled leadership, and unwavering faith in the power… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
“This cultural hubris, or overweening presumption about what we are entitled to from a universe that is basically insensitive to human needs,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much.… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris… — Kieron Gillen Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering… — Ian Williams Copy Share Image
There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“These things were made of hubris, because they always broke down, or worse, broke everything. But maybe Laurence had been right and… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
The first of the Trainspotting crew to die. Out of the five of them like, Begbie, Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and [Margaret]… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Every time I get accustomed to low volatility, like we were towards the end of the Greenspan era, and we think we… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
“A part of me, of course, was reminding myself over and over and over again that I should never have tried to… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Isaac Cline was a creature of his times. He embodied the hubris of his times and, in many ways, was a victim… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
If U.S. mistakes in the Middle East helped Putin raise Russia's global profile, China's missteps and hubris in East and Southeast Asia,… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
“There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone… — James Woods Copy Share Image
I do think hubris played a role here as well, the belief that the Lusitania was too big and too fast to… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
![“The first of the Trainspotting crew to die. Out of the five of them like, Begbie, Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and [Margaret] Thatcher. Who'd have thunk she'd have been the first to go? She was the invisible author of the book, really. She created the conditions and the hubris whereby that whole culture…” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/868/irvine-welsh-843_book_the-first-of-the-trainspotting-crew-to-d_2665422.jpg)
