Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Wakefield

I'm very comfortable with him. He's done a tremendous job. He takes a lot of pride in what he does.

It was appropriate that all of the Texans were there. I saw a lot of pride.

Jay Wright

It was crazy. We're a pretty defensive-minded team. We take pride in that. We just couldn't stop them.

It was a wonderful, wonderful sense of pride for us to work there.

David Ogilvy

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.

Danny Boyle

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

Daddy Yankee

I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

Mark Madsen

I questioned our pride in the first half.

Ilya Ehrenburg

Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn but is evil! Follow the precepts of Comrade Stalin. Stamp out the fascist beast once and for all in its lair! Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm onward, kill, you gallant soldiers of the Red Army.

Jack Kerouac

I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?

Jack Kerouac

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

J. C. Ryle

Let us watch against pride in every shape-pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness.

Isaac Watts

Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below.

Isaac Watts

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

Fred Brooks

We tend to blame the physical media for most of our implementation difficulties; for the media are not "ours" in the way the ideas are, and our pride colors our judgement.

Erica Jong

I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.

Eoin Colfer

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

Aaron Rowand

I'll wear it with pride, all the time.

Ricky Davis

I don't know if it's self pride or whatever. We just need to toughen up a little bit.

J. D. Salinger

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

Greg Giraldo

We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality.

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.

This is about pride. This is about pride in your community, which is something we don't do a lot of in Yakima.

H. P. Lovecraft

Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic--the abnormally chromatic entity in "The Colour Out of Space" being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.