#arrogant

We need arrogant people who like showing off. They can cover us from bullets in the line of fire. ↗

— Toba Beta

#show-off #target #arrogance

I'm not leaving, Kitten. You're going to do this." My mouth opened as did the door behind us. Stomach dropping, I turned to see Mom standing there in all her fuzzy-bunny pajama glory. Oh, for the love of God. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#bonus-points #daemon #embarrassing #funny #katy

This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.” “Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#arrogant #call-me-irresistible #funny #humour #sep

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#arrogance #arrogant #boasting #bragging #challenges

I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets. ↗

— Bjork

#expect #get #gets #i #i think

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. ↗

— Tony Blair

#choose #chooses #fails #government #irresponsible

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#believe #compensate #deal #failure #faith

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#ancestors #around #arrogant #classes #dead

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring. ↗

— Bob Considine

#bring #call #day #each #find

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#before #bows #control #discover #each