Quotes About Self Aggrandizing

#1. But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off.

Dannii Minogue

#3. The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.

Cynthia Heimel

#4. When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

Jamie Dimon

#5. Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.

Richard Brookhiser

#6. Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.

Tom Robbins

#7. Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts.

Evan Osnos

#8. ... he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.

Arundhati Roy

#9. I think my sudden love for this girl is a truer expression of myself than anything.

Jack Kerouac

#10. By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.

Steven Franssen

#11. It's meaningless to live a long life if you think only about yourself, and give no thought to caring about others.

Thomas A Kempis

#12. It is possible to communicate beautifully or boringly, in every language on Earth. But people don't like to believe this. They make self-aggrandizing myths instead.

Robert Lane Greene

#13. I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

Park Dietz

#14. Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened my eyes to many facets of how the extended order works.

Kurt Bills

#15. How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves? ... Without a strong constitution to counteract the strong tendency of government to disorder and abuse there can be little progress or improvement.

John C. Calhoun

#16. Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory and you will come home with no wounds whatsoever.

Uesugi Kenshin

#17. It's lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We'd all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

Michael Connelly

#18. What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it. It makes me feel, I don't know, arrogant, self-important, self-aggrandizing, whatever. Like I'm being used.

Todd Solondz

#19. I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

Miroslav Vitous

#20. I know it's a bit self-aggrandizing."
"Hey, you're stealing my eulogy," Isaac said. "My first bit is about how you were a self-aggrandizing bastard.

John Green

#21. I want to live, breathe, I want to be part of the human race

Thom Yorke

#22. Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

#23. But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced to work together-and, quite frankly, they often don't get along.

Camron Wright

#24. His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history.

James S.A. Corey

#25. Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

Holland Cotter

#26. We humans give ourselves such airs, even aggrandizing our poky little 'sins' to the level of cosmic significance!

Richard Dawkins

#27. 'Sanctus' was done on speculation. I had no agent or publisher. I was being sensible, I suppose, by writing a standalone novel. I figured if that one didn't work, no one would be interested in reading a sequel.

Simon Toyne

#28. I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise.

Diane Meier