Fatal Conceit Quotes

#1. The fatal conceit of most spies is to believe they are loved, in a relationship between equals, and not merely manipulated.

Ben Macintyre

#2. The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#3. Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.

Jonathan D. Spence

#4. An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.

B.R. Ambedkar

#5. I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

Toby Jones

#6. Mabry Muscat looked pleadingly at Mallow, and she could not understand why they all obeyed him -- except that of course the King could eat them, and of course he was King, and did not people everywhere do more or less as they were told when someone with a crown did the telling?

Catherynne M Valente

#7. I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

Laverne Cox

#8. It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

Gabriela Sabatini

#9. I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Nancy Astor

#10. I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.

Robin Quivers

#11. I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

Jack Horner

#12. He agreed with David Hockney that an artist really had to be able to draw before anything else could be achieved.

Alexander McCall Smith

#13. I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Wayne Thiebaud

#14. If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

Anne Bronte

#15. Change won't come from the top, Change will come from mobilized grassroots.

Barack Obama