Hubristic Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the wisdom of the elderly is equivalent to that of a child. — Charles Lee

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. — Greg Mortenson

It came to me then, like a chilly draught from an unseen gap, that I had always known in my deepest heart that it would be like this, a slipping away from a life full of people I had come to love, in a place I had helped to shape, in a land I had helped to free. — Isobelle Carmody

Ask yourself, if all men must grub in the dirt for food, how shall any man lift his eyes to contemplate the stars? If each of us must break his back to build a hovel, who shall raise the temples to glorify the gods? — George R R Martin

There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially. — Gloria Allred

For months I heard whispers and though it had seemed that they were carried to me on the wind, they were really coming from inside my own head. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Mission creep is not unique to Congress. It is endemic to all arms of the federal government ... — Bruce Fein

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life. — Suzanne Vega

I feel like nature abhors prolonged suffering. It does not allow it. It knocks you off if you got something chronic. But we somehow perpetuate that. Like we live day after day, year after year, our whole life under prolonged suffering. And that I would call cruelty. — Daniel Suelo

No, but you're the most beautiful thing I've seen in the morning sun. — Jamie McGuire

Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to religion. — Stephen L. Carter

He's pushing me, so I push him back.
His cross is rattling in my tongue and jaw. His pulse is beating in my throat. And his mouth is killing everything I'm trying to think.
Simon Snow. — Rainbow Rowell