Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Hatch

I take pride in being a results-oriented person.

Bill Freeman

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Salman Rushdie

We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.

Salman Rushdie

As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.

Winston Churchill

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Rebecca Solnit

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

P. J. O'Rourke

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

Avi Arad

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

Pierre Corneille

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

Kate Morton

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

John Keats

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

Lisa Kleypas

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

Leo Tolstoy

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

Zig Ziglar

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

James Beard

It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

Norman Mailer

The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Eternity: what a waste of time.

Joel Osteen

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

Gene Wilder

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

Henry Ford

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

Betty White

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Bobby Scott

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.