Superciliousness Quotes & Sayings

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around. — Oprah Winfrey

Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value. — Jay Samit

Depression is hard to describe not just because it is complex and abstract but also because it occupies the part of us capable of describing things. — Sarah Manguso

Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries. — Henry Fielding

He understood the story his audience wanted to hear and how they wanted it told. — Jim Korkis

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity. — John Locke

Carpe librum, meant "Seize the book. — Jefferson Bass

No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating, drinking, or smoking, an uproarious materialism which to many women appears only hoggish. You may call the thing an orgy or a sacrament; it is certainly an essential. It is at root a resistance to the superciliousness of the individual. Nay, its very swaggering and howling are humble. In the heart of its rowdiness there is a sort of mad modesty; a desire to melt the separate soul into the mass of unpretentious masculinity. It is a clamorous confession of the weakness of all flesh. No man must be superior to the things that are common to men. This sort of equality must be bodily and gross and comic. Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick. — G.K. Chesterton

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself. — W. Somerset Maugham

Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicine as we used to know it. — George W. Bush

What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday. — T.D. Jakes

Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain. — Booth Tarkington

Young ladies have a remarkable way of letting you know that they think you a "quiz" without actually saying the words. A certain superciliousness of look, coolness of manner, nonchalance of tone, express fully their sentiments on the point, without committing them by any positive rudeness in word or deed. — Charlotte Bronte

The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease. — Linus Torvalds

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance. — William Hazlitt

That's what love is, Georgie. Accidental damage protection. — Rainbow Rowell

There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself. — Ayelet Zurer

Theosophists for instance will preach an obviously attractive idea like re-incarnation; but if we wait for its logical results, they are spiritual superciliousness and the cruelty of caste. For if a man is a beggar by his own pre-natal sins, people will tend to despise the beggar. But Christianity preaches an obviously unattractive idea, such as original sin; but when we wait for its results, they are pathos and brotherhood, and a thunder of laughter and pity; for only with original sin we can at once pity the beggar and distrust the king. — G.K. Chesterton

People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there. — Clayton Christensen

So, you guys are like us in other, uh, departments? — Jennifer L. Armentrout