perhaps the greatest challenge to thinking women is the challenge to move from the desire for safety and approval to the most "unfeminine" quality of all -- that of intllectual arrogance, the supreme hubris which asserts to itself the right to reorde...
Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse. Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: ...
I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
Hubris and science are incompatible.
We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.
I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.
We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.
Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.
The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we do and everything we think is the ultimate, the best.
Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id.
It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.
But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.
Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.
