Arrogance Quote by Gwenn Wright

“...we pretend to be grown up and responsible; we are so proud and self-assured--and look at the result. The world lies in bomb dust…

— Alfred Delp

“no longer dealing with reasonable, intelligent adults but with temperamental lunatics who had about as much self-control as hormonal teenagers.”

— Olivia Rigal

“Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exist for his sake.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?”

— Friedrich von Schiller

“There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“We were growing up. It was one of those moments when you could practically feel the adult pushing out, pushing forward into the world.…

— Hannah Pittard

“I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this exposure to every conceivable…

— Douglas Coupland

“We were girls, you see, not even women, just girls, most of us when we started. And the boys were just boys, not men,…

— Michael Grant

“We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.”

— Chuck Klosterman

“Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.”

— Sarvenaz Tash

“I could never have imagined this world if I hadn't spent almost eight decades walking around in it. People talk about how wonderful the…

— Marilynne Robinson

“There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should.”

— Brandon Sanderson