Arrogate Quotes

#1. If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

Pope Leo XIII

#3. The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

Charlotte Bronte

#4. The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

John Calvin

#5. It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#6. Much of the Soul they talk, but all awry;
And in themselves seek virtue; and to themselves
All glory arrogate, to God give none

John Milton

#7. Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

Idries Shah

#9. I eat with my hands when I am home alone!

Travis Fimmel

#10. Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone.

Charlie Brooker

#11. It's like a lion at the door;
And when the door begins to crack,
It's like a stick across you back;
And when your back begins to smart,
It's like a penknife in your heart;
And when your heart begins to bleed,
You're dead, and dead, and dead, indeed.

John Newberry

#12. I would continue to suffer,but knowing that everyone else is suffering too would make the pain more bearable.If only a few of us are condemned to suffer terrible tragedies,then there is something very wrong with the creation.

Paulo Coelho

#13. But I was the daughter of a Naiad. Behave like water, I told myself. Don't try to oppose them. When they try to grasp you, slip through their fingers. Flow around them.

Margaret Atwood

#14. Because remote viewing is such an outlandish claim that will revolutionise the world, we need overwhelming evidence before we draw any conclusions. Right now we don't have that evidence.

Richard Wiseman

#15. In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

Shekhar Kapur

#16. The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

Guillermo Del Toro

#17. True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

Alain De Botton