Complacent Quotes

115 quotes by 108 authors

She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate? — Jodi Picoult
It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary. — Keri Arthur
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war,… — Eleanor Roosevelt
They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily… — Daphne du Maurier
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. — David Foster Wallace
Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of complacent Americans… — Jim Butcher
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop… — Seth Godin
Julius Tallow was a fool. He appeared complacent, but like a weak swimmer out of his depth, his legs were kicking frantically under the surface,… — Jonathan Stroud
When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And… — Stephen Crane
We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious… — Pema Chodron
Mom used to quote Isaiah 64: about waiting on the Lord. It doesn't mean being complacent. It means understanding that he has a plan, and… — Tim Tebow
There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too… — Jhonen Vasquez
People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent,… — Anita Brookner
The time is here for you to stand up for what you know is right. You must judge right from wrong. No longer can you… — Margaret D. Nadauld
Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its… — Shashi Tharoor
My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some… — William T. Vollmann
I had some downtime with my career and... I got complacent. — Jake Busey

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