Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carey Mulligan

I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.

C. S. Lewis

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

C. S. Lewis

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Bryant H. McGill

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

Steven Smith

I can't speak for everyone, but for myself personally, I pride myself on my conditioning. But today kind of let me down. They have tough guys.

I didn't make enough plays, so I didn't play (well). That's the way I look at it, ... I tried to do what I can, but I pride myself on making plays, and I didn't make enough today.

William Shakespeare

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

Billy Graham

We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to stumble into hell because of our pride.

Billy Graham

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

We still have pride in our game. We still want to win.

Just to play, for me, is special. I take pride in playing. I know I can compete.

Kerry Collins

I take pride in the way I play, ... This organization has treated me well. I still have a lot of fight. Every time I go out there I am going to give it my best.

I take pride in being a results-oriented person.

Anton LaVey

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I always take pride in throwing touchdowns because that's not something a running back is supposed to be able to do.

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.

We take a lot of pride in what we do here at Wadsworth.

We take a lot of pride in our defense,

Alan Dershowitz

There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.

Al Yankovic

In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

Alain de Botton

William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

Charles Churchill

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?

Charles Churchill

The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.

Charles Darwin

Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.

Ron Gardenhire

Right now, pride can go out the window. It's about winning. I've had his back for three years.

Kevin Garnett

I take a lot of pride in how I look,

I think it's just pride in the United States, period,

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.

Bill Cowher

I'm their biggest fan every Sunday they go out there and play. I'm pulling for them, for the people in New Orleans and everything they're going through. If there are three or four hours that people can get away from the reality that is existing for them right now, the uncertainty, the unknown, the Saints can bring a sense of pride to them for that short period of time.

Bill Cowher

I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of Pittsburgh.

Bill Cosby

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.

Bibhu Mohapatra

I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.

Bertha von Suttner

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!