“I, for instance, was triumphant over everyone; everyone, of course, was in dust and ashes, and was forced spontaneously to recognise my… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The only thing we know for sure about superiority in sports in the United States of America in the 20th century is… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
Don't get angry when others are talking behind your back... because they're just proving that your life is obviously more interesting than… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
“Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing… — John Piper Copy Share Image
But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
Some build their sense of personal worth by comparing themselves to others. That approach can lead to feelings of inadequacy or superiority.… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Air superiority, which the United States has taken for granted since World War II, is no longer assured. And, without control of… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Excellence has always been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them is superior to circumstances. Believe in yourself. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him;… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Countries with deficit don't want to pay the bill, and they want to get more loans, and countries with superiority, they don't… — Sebastian Pinera Copy Share Image
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I'm such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
