Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Martin

It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution

Alan Shepard

I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.

Charles Dickens

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Charles Caleb Colton

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

Bram Fischer

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

Jane Austen

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

Jane Austen

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]

Jane Austen

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

Jane Austen

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

Jane Austen

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Jane Austen

Till this moment I never knew myself.

Cher

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.

Charlotte Lennox

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

Charlotte Bronte

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

Charles Dickens

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Jane Austen

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Edmund Spenser

Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight; For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.

Boyd Holbrook

I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that.

Arthur C. Clarke

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

Mira Nair

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Willie Morris

He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.