Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothea Lange

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

William Hazlitt

Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

Narendra Modi

It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!

Narendra Modi

The previous Governments took pride in making laws, but I am happier removing laws. Let's open the windows, let some fresh air come in.

Louise J. Kaplan

Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.

Genevieve Gorder

It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

Henry Rollins

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

Henry B. Eyring

Pride is the great enemy of unity

Helen Hunt Jackson

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Thomas Haden Church

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

Vernor Vinge

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

Vanna Bonta

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

Susie Bright

Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.

Suzanne Collins

How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.

Suzanne Collins

I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.” I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.

Taryn Simon

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

Sophie Kinsella

Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

Adanma Ekeledo

We were just trying some things out. You never know when you'll need it.

Richard Kovalcheck

We were just being aggressive. We were trying to get a big play right off the bat.

Robert Benton

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

Robert Bly

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

Suzanne Shaw

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

Robert Altman

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

Robert Altman

I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.

Robert A. Heinlein

Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They're focused on getting their base out, and they're trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies.