#smug

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. ↗

— Rachel Field

#fortune #good #good fortune #greener #happiness

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#british #british columbia #chinese #columbia #few

I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#camera #control #during #films #i

Grimalkin yawned and licked his whiskers. 'Not dead,' he replied. 'Hardly dead. But she changed her name and appearance so many times, even the oldest fey would hardly remember her. She likes to keep a low profile, you know.' Puck frowned, knitting his bows together. 'Then how is it you remember her?' he demanded, sounding indignant. 'I am a cat,' purred Grimalkin. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#long-memory #mystery #smug #change

I've got such a disgusting, wide, smug grin on my face all the time that my friends just want to slap me. I've never been so happy. ↗

— Holly Valance

#disgusting #face #friends #got #grin

I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine. ↗

— Colin Firth

#fine #gone #how #i #i am

I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive. ↗

— Colin Firth

#aggressive #air #constantly #find #humour

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners. ↗

— Chris Ware

#i #look #mouth #photos #preponderance

I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago. ↗

— Rand Beers

#ago #association #case #chinese #deposed

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#break #business #closed #law #legitimate