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.

Wanda Sykes

That word sassy - it haunts me. I keep getting the sassy thing.

William Shakespeare

I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster!

William Shakespeare

You are strangely troublesome.

William Shakespeare

No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.

William Shakespeare

They were devils incarnate.

William Shakespeare

He is white-livered and red-faced.

William Shakespeare

Such antics do not amount to a man.

William Shakespeare

Avaunt, you cullions!

William Shakespeare

Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.

Richard M. Nixon

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Whoopi Goldberg

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.

Kelsey Grammer

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

Linda Tripp

I can live with myself.

Charles Spurgeon

I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it.

Cat Deeley

I can't dance at all by myself.

Bob Saget

Nobody can tell me what I can or can't do, except they can.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Nobody else can demean me. I can only demean myself

Tila Tequila

I'm a woman, so I'm going to be woman as much as I can.