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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
P. J. O'Rourke
Ignorance
Law
Evil
Ideology
National
Think
Defense
Liberals
Rule
Guided
Rule Of Law
Cripple
Would
Would-Be
Individual
Instead
Economy
Exhaust
Smug
Were
National Defense
Plans
Coherent
Creeps
I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.
Michael J. Fox
Angry
You
Lose
Lost
Point
Know
Because
Smug
Any
Anything
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
Rachel Field
Happiness
Good
You
Too Much
Too
Oasis
Unaware
Like
Make
Smug
Surrounds
Greener
Much
Should
Fortune
Desert
Good Fortune
One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.
Jo Brand
Life
People
One Thing
Pronounce
Winds
Particularly
Attractive
Because
Smug
Coming
Lots
Up
Very
Families
Affluent
Common
Famous
Lovely
Poor
Across
Help
Filled
Homes
Pets
Thing
Christians
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
Loren Eiseley
God
Man
Will
Matters
Own
Assuming
Take
Misses
Knows
Course
Becoming
How
Smug
Many
Things
In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.
Allen West
Charity
World
Post
Conservatives
Progressive
Local
Churches
See
Adoption
Only
Share
Fair
Bake
Fair Share
Fairness
Real
Smug
Sales
American
Sends
Legion
The Real World
Real World
While
Agencies
Sermon
What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
Caitlin Moran
Women
Men
Free
Feminism
Nuts
Dim
Dressed
Lazy
Badly
Simply
Deluded
Smug
However
Might
Should
Belief
Receding
Fat
I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.
Colin Firth
People
Aggressive
Think
Humour
Air
Worst
Worst Thing
Find
Constantly
London
About
Like
Smug
Surprising
Very
Place
Which
Interesting
Much
Thing
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.
Ellen McLaughlin
Work
Courage
Own
Playwright
Drama
Others
Kind
My Own
Well
Became
Understand
Smug
Modern
Lack
Frustrated
Interested
Engaged
Found
Now
Deeply
Early
Enlightened
Amused
Plays
Whenever people are confronted by a prediction for the future that they simply cannot or will not believe, they always say, 'It will never happen in my lifetime.' If the prediction is something they deplore and fear, they say it with calculated bravado, often adding a smug, snorty hhrrummph.
Florence King
Future
People
Fear
Will
Believe
Adding
Say
Something
Lifetime
Never
Simply
Calculated
Always
Smug
Bravado
Often
Whenever
Happen
Cannot
Prediction
Confronted
They Say
The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.
Geoff Mulgan
Technology
People
Too Many People
Too Much
Picture
Action
Complacency
Too
Pretty
About
Talk
Make
Make It Happen
Empowerment
Smug
Mixed
Passive
Interactive
Happen
Little
Far
Much
Connected
Users
Many
Designed
Technologies
I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.
Jack Thorne
Conversation
Writing
Stupid
Idiot
Controlling
Way
Constant
Seem
Winning
Always
Sound
Smug
Either
Plays
In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.
John Ortberg
Me
Feeling
Difficulty
Else
Seeing
Someone
More
Leave
Smug
Condition
Little
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.
Nancy Gibbs
Conflict
Church
Values
Gender
State
Relations
Once
Top
Church And State
Clash
Tossed
Had
No-One
Raw
Generational
Safe
Another
Felt
Smug
Roles
Revolutions
Stacked
Happening
Explain
Race
Race Relations
Many
Why
Bonfire
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
Norman Mailer
People
Wind
Stupid
Big
White
Live
Incredibly
Those
Eye
Hurricane
Only
Sound
Smug
Hear
America
Center
Fortunate
Who
Serene
An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
Pankaj Mishra
Society
Corrective
Voices
Global
Call
Smug
Intellectual
Quickly
Bluff
Public
Many
Elites
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.
Rowan Atkinson
Good
You
Job
Say
Bit
TV
He
Particular
Smug
His
Spy
Very
Commercials
Just
Explain
Theatrical
Little
Little Bit
Much
Really
Need
For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.
Tom Hollander
Faith
Me
People
Complacency
Other
Distasteful
Find
About
More
Smug
Than
Aspiration
Satisfaction
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