"It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm."

-- Jeffrey Kluger

#Smart Quotes #Personality Quotes #Arrogance Quotes

“A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.”
“I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.”
“The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members”

Source : My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4
“You will never become rich, until you hate poverty”
“Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.”
“There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.”
“Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.”

Source : Percy Wells Cerutty (1964). “Middle-distance running”
“I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.”

Source : "The Hunger Angel". Book by Herta Müller, 2012.

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