Quotes with over-confidence

Quotes 921 till 940 of 1276.

  • Washington Irving The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Ben Folds The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The Niagara Falls? Simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary rocks.
    In Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Djuna Barnes The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
    Djuna Barnes
    American writer and artist (1892 - 1982)
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  • Caleb Cushing The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Angela Carter The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Burleigh Grimes The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.
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  • Adam Baldwin The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
    Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Napoleon The only victory over love is flight.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • L. Ron Hubbard The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.
    L. Ron Hubbard
    American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology (1911 - 1986)
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  • Bayard Taylor The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Plato The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • B. C. Forbes The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Burt Rutan The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • John Williamson The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.
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