Hubristic Pride Quotes & Sayings

If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns. — Geraldine Brooks

Bravery is just a different kind of broken. — Mark Lawrence

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes. — Edsger Dijkstra

A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having. — Larry Wall

What could we do, then? We asked ourselves the question while crossing the dunes. Live? It's precisely in this kind of situation that, crushed by the sense of their own insignificance, people decide to have children; this is how the species reproduces, although less and less, it must be said. — Michel Houellebecq

I used to look so immature, like a young man without self-confidence. There was one particular light blue, shiny cape outfit I wore that still makes me cringe. — Bjorn Ulvaeus

Live your life by the hour, not by the day. What will you achieve in the next hour? — Frank Zane

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat. — Barack Obama

He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe. — Paulo Coelho

pushing away his breakfast plate of mushrooms and moss sauce. — R.A. Salvatore

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear. — James Richardson

The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on; for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings. — Vitruvius

My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is watching the camera, and part of it is thinking about the stuff that we have to get that day. It's always a pleasure watching, but you also take it for granted, when you're on the actual grind, making the show. — Cary Fukunaga

They have received many wounds; nevertheless they stand fast in that liberty wherewith God has made them free; and they are strict to remember the Lord their God from day to day; yea, they do observe to keep his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments continually; and their faith is strong in the prophecies concerning that which is to come. — Joseph Smith Jr.