Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aesop

Pride goes before destruction.

Aleister Crowley

What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.

Aldo Leopold

There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.

Alexander Pope

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Alexander Pope

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

Alexander Pope

Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

Alexander Pope

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

Douglas Alexander

Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

Douglas Wilson

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

Dwight Freeney

I want to play my best, day in and day out. It's a pride thing for me. I'm going to go out there and dominate the guy I'm playing against every time.

Corazon Aquino

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

Dalai Lama

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

Derrek Lee

Defense is something I take pride in. I feel it's just as important as offense. They should have RBIs for defensive plays.

Anthony Perkins

Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.

Anthony Mackie

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

Andrew Young

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Christopher Moore

He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.

Anne Bronte

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

Angelina Jolie

Im extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I dont try to be shocking. Im playful, and I know when something Im saying is maybe shocking, but its just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live.

Anthony de Mello

A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get rid of them. Still they plagued him. Finally he wrote the department of agriculture. He enumerated all the things he had tried and closed his letter with the question: "What shall I do now?" In due course the reply came: "We suggest you learn to love them."

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.

Andrew Solomon

Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.

Daniel J. Boorstin

While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.

Clint Hurdle

There's always a sense of pride you take out on the field to play your best every night. Sometimes your best stinks.

Danny Pino

I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

Daniel Defoe

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

David Foster Wallace

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

David Stern

Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.

David Lloyd

The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

Curtis Joseph

I think you always take pride in how you play.