Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Kraus

The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

Kanye West

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

Julie Walters

I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You don't expect funny to come through after 200 years - humor doesn't transcend decades, let alone centuries.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

Paul Coffey

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.

Haruki Murakami

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

John Churton Collins

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

Meg Cabot

In a way, I was incredibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).

Max Beerbohm

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

Kevin Garnett

The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional.

Karl Marlantes

I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didnt have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.

Jules Verne

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

Glenda Jackson

For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Paul Henderson

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

Paul Haggis

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

Pat Conroy

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

Jurnee Smollett

There's a level of shame attached to our history, and we need to replace that shame with pride and own our history. These are our superheroes. These are our people, and I would love to see us own this side of our history with pride.

Julia Roberts

It's my privilege and honor to cook three meals a day for my family, and it's a luxury on a level that I didn't even realize, because it can be relentless for me on some days. You have pride in how you take care of your family.

Julia Quinn

Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite?

Paul Gleason

If I make a decision it is a possession. I take pride in it, I tend to defend it and not listen to those who question it. If I make sense, then this is more dynamic, and I listen and I can change it. A decision is something you polish. Sensemaking is a direction for the next period.

Paul Giamatti

Maybe it's because I have too much pride or self-respect, but I thought, `Why does a guy who has thinning hair and who is overweight have to be a loser or a joke?'

Patrick Rothfuss

What has made me most proud - the things that I've done that I feel the most pride about - is helping people care about making the world better.

Patrick Rothfuss

If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.

Patrick Rothfuss

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

Patrick Rothfuss

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Lea Salonga

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

Ne-Yo

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

Neal A. Maxwell

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride is the enemy, "the first of the sins." One reason to be particularly on guard against pride is that "the devilish strategy of Pride is that it attacks us, not in our weakest points, but in our strongest. It is preeminently the sin of the noble mind." Not only of the noble mind, but also of the semi-righteous.