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For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
I got a long road ahead of me to make people believe i'm not actually a huge douche...
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
This may sound conceited, but the more predominant the role, the more comfortable I am on set.
I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.
Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.
We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.
There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.
I want to go on TV to perform. I'm not conceited, but I am good at what I do. It's just the vehicles are not there anymore.
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"
A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.
There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself.
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
It's really fun to have the spotlight and feel ready for it. Not in a conceited way. But just like, 'Man, I think I'm going to give you what you need.'
Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.
No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.
Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!
Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to write books that aren't just using up trees.
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.
I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.