Self Satisfied Quotes
34 quotes by 33 authors
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Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at…
— Charles Webster Hawthorne
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Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again,…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stoop, would be alarming…
— Michael J. Fox
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Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And…
— Theodor Adorno
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Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.
— Janis Ian
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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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Who wins at the end of the day? The self-satisfied people who heatedly debate some obscure details? Or the people who sidestep the entire debate…
— Ramit Sethi
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...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if…
— Abraham Flexner
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Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain…
— Dave Barry
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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing…
— George Brett
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The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
— Claude Bernard
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It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow...
— Wassily Kandinsky
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I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do not get bloated…
— Emily Carr
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
— William Osler
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Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.
— Neil Gaiman
Who Wrote These Self Satisfied Quotes
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