Top 1200 Most Arrogant Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I was very worried about whether I could do it or not. I mean, how arrogant - here I am in my 20s trying to write from the point of view of a woman in her 80s.

One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.

I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

I don't want to sound arrogant, but the defense might shut me down on one or two out of five plays, but I'll make them pay eventually.

America can no longer afford to be as arrogant as we've been. We can no longer exempt ourselves from the global family of concern.

I'm kind of arrogant and cocky when I play... It's kind of weird. It's like I have split personalities.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. 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 the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

I am who I am: confident, arrogant, dominant, honest, hard-working and innovative.

I know this sounds arrogant or cocky or like I'm selling myself, but even on the court now, I don't think anybody can stop me. I just have that much confidence.

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

A lot of people are giving up on politics and thinking they can solve issues with technology. These kind of arrogant behaviors towards the rest of the society are a bit disgusting.

In the bad old days, captains were not good leaders. They didn't build teams; they were arrogant and autocratic.

I'm one of the lucky people that, my job is my passion, is my hobby. I hope this doesn't sound arrogant: I truly feel that this is what I'm meant to do, to swim and to talk about protecting the environment, my two passions.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

A lot of people are seeing me as an arrogant, confident kid. It doesn't worry me.

For one thing, you need a lot of self-confidence to be on the top of your field. There are times probably where I appear to be over-confident or arrogant. It's really in the eye of the beholder.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

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

Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

I am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.

Some people feel like I'm arrogant. It's unfortunate, because people don't know my heart.

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

The fact is that everything I've done, no one else could do. I don't want to be cocky or arrogant or think I'm the best, but what I've tried to do all those years was to show I was different from the others. And that's not my opinion, but everyone's.

There has been this slightly naive and perhaps arrogant view that technology can completely reinvent the political system and the way that government and politics works, which is ridiculous.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

The public's got it right, a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and like to spend lots of money and have lots of girlfriends and all that.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

When I look back, I can see why people thought I was aggressive. My first single, 'Do It Like A Dude,' resulted in a lot of misconceptions about me. I'm confident - but I'm not arrogant.

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy."

The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more.

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

What I don't like are arrogant people. We're all equal. I don't like it when a person assumes to be better.

You have an expansionist Islam and you have an expansionist China. Right? They are motivated. They're arrogant. They're on the march. And they think the Judeo-Christian West is on the retreat.

Hipsters. We all know one. They're those fun, little, arrogant people who let the ideal of 'anti-consumerism,' combined with a hatred for all things normal, dictate their every action.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

If someone asks a stupid question, you can only give a stupid answer or appear arrogant.

And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are most base and infirm, who most allow themselves to be carried away by anger and hatred.

Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

There was that 'anything is achievable' attitude in the Eighties. Everything was very positive and gung-ho. Well, 'hedonistic' is the word they use a lot. We were all confident bordering on arrogant.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'