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.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

Charles Lyell

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

William Shakespeare

That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

Carl Jung

Haven's warm, clammy palms press hard against my cheeks as the tarnished edge of her silver skull ring leaves a smudge on my skin.

Bill Cosby

You also notice that the right side of your face feels like it's sliding off of your skull. And your bottom lip is in your lap!

Donna Tartt

If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.

Allen Ginsberg

what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

Allen Ginsberg

Inside skull vast as outside skull

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.