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pride
Paul Hatch I take pride in being a results-oriented person.
pride united
Bill Freeman I think it's just pride in the United States, period,
pride thinking fire
Richelle Mead Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.'' ''Only one, huh?'' I spoke lightly, but his words had thrilled me. He'd meant what he said about thinking those were wonderful traits, and feeling his pride in me meant more than anything just then.
pride order omnipotence
Umberto Eco A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.
pride boys joy
William Wordsworth I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
pride ladders backwards
Robert Mugabe We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
pride men discovery
Samuel Johnson Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
pride government views
William Howard Taft Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible..
knives made shorts
Richelle Mead You made your own jean shorts...with a butter knife?
knives evil magic
Rick Riordan But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.
knives bread
Vera Farmiga Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
knives use staff
Robin Hobb One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
knives forgiving lambs
William Blake The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
knives imagination why-not
W. S. Gilbert If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?
knives bores-you people
Louise Brooks I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
knives house taste
John Cheever Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
knives freedom-of-speech blunt
Epictetus We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
differences people would-be
Richard Dawkins Superficially it's a problem if homosexuality is genetic - if the difference between people's sexual preferences is genetic - because at least a pure homosexual would be unlikely to reproduce and therefore pass on the genes. So the first question you ask is, is it actually genetic, and the answer is probably to some extent yes.
differences effort achievement
William J. Clinton Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.
differences done sometimes
William J. Clinton Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.
differences ideas truth-is
William James True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.
differences design special
William James We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
differences degrees different
William James There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
differences making-a-difference done
William James Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
differences making-a-difference want
Vera Farmiga There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
differences people needs
Richard Dawkins Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)