Smugly Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has inflamed…
— Niles Eldredge
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Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can at least change…
— Bob Black
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Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that…
— Michio Kaku
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The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to…
— N. T. Wright
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Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
— Zig Ziglar
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Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.
— Jim Butcher
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As they spread out their blankets, Saphira commented with satisfaction, We are becoming more powerful, Eragon, both of us. Soon no one will be able…
— Christopher Paolini
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Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to…
— Judith McNaught
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[Will]'d barely been asleep a few minutes when Halt's voice woke him. 'Will? Are you asleep?'... 'I was,' he said, a little indignantly. 'I'm not…
— John Flanagan
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Be prepared,' that's my motto." He smiled smugly at me. "That, and 'Sleep whenever possible.' Oh, and 'If you don't notice it's gone, what's the…
— Kiersten White
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He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet."You looove me," he crooned smugly holding his arms…
— James Patterson
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Mom was bossy. Even in print I could hear her tone, smugly congratulating me on already earning the prince's affections and telling me firmly to…
— Kiera Cass
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She smiled smugly. “We came to an agreement, the duck and I.
— Cassandra Clare
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My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman,†it said. “I’ll be the judge of that,†warned Granny, and added, “Don’t call me woman.†“Very…
— Terry Pratchett
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Kinzie smiled smugly. “You admire our base of operations? Yes, our distribution system is worldwide. It took many years and most of our fortune to…
— Rick Riordan
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On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to…
— Bobby Ghosh
Who Wrote These Smugly Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Smugly Quotes as follows: