Cocky Quotes - page 4

I still have the butterflies whenever I talk in public. It's a healthy feeling, instead of feeling cocky. You got to think/guard about what you're gonna say, you don't end up being nonchalant about what you say and end up regretting it later on. It keeps you in check. (Francis Escudero)
Occasionally in her travels through her children's minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter. She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs. Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance. "Yes, he is rather cocky," Wendy admitted with regret. Her mother had been questioning her. View quote
J. M. Barrie
The place itself, and ne'er a good word spoke of it, You shiver when you even make a joke of it.Though some go cocky, gaily in hand-basket there, The most fare sadly in a clammy casket there...Undying pain and gaping loss, no doubt of it. A wide way leading in and no way out of it!But none have told the blackest horror shrouded there - Tall teeming terror‚ but it sure is crowded there. View quote
R. A. Lafferty