Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Bragg

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.

Bode Miller

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

Brendon Ayanbadejo

I take a lot of pride in being Nigerian

Brian Aldiss

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

Brad Moore

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

Blaise Pascal

Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?

Blaise Pascal

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

Blaise Pascal

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Billie Joe Armstrong

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world

Charles Spurgeon

No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

Charles R. Swindoll

Pride leaves no room for grace.

Democritus

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Craig Ferguson

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

Claire Foy

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

Arthur Helps

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

Arthur C. Brooks

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

Brett Gardner

I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way.

Aravind Adiga

Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft and NASA. Our temples are not the god-encrusted shrines of Varanasi, but Western scientific institutions like Caltech and MIT, and magazines like 'Nature' and 'Scientific American.

Anthony Zinni

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

Kevin McBride

This win was for the pride of Ireland, ... I proved everyone wrong tonight.

Baruch Spinoza

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

Arthur Machen

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

Ayn Rand

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

Charles Bukowski

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

Edward Abbey

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

Aristotle

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

Aristotle

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

Ben Jonson

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

Elinor Glyn

how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.

David Nicholls

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

She takes a lot of pride in what she does. And you don't necessarily see that in a lot of teenagers.