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e4f7d21 I would always rather be happy than dignified. women pride Charlotte Brontë
d82616b Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. vanity pride Jane Austen
e3c53db I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. mortification injury forgiveness pride Jane Austen
a76e944 I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. pride Alexandre Dumas
c653607 I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. confidence inspirational pride Michel de Montaigne
222d0fe As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you. humility pride C.S. Lewis
e631b42 I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that. fathers sons pride John Green
aef99ea "Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '. relationships depression morality happiness depression-humor the-key-to-happiness oscar-wilde marriage-advice sins self-pity narcissism self-improvement pride vice self-help sin Stephen Fry
37e6556 Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness. love forgiveness pride Kahlil Gibran
801405e You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move. pride George R.R. Martin
9cb9b2f I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. solitude self-containment pride Rudyard Kipling
2c03670 "You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)" men self-determination women empowerment love gentlemanlike gentlemen behaviour refusal scorn declaration marriage-proposal humiliation proposal mr-darcy propriety rejection pride Jane Austen
15de391 We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. nationalism poignant pride William Golding
f22e784 Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. human-rights righteousness america freedom inspirational stream peace justice water pride Martin Luther King Jr.
2812d97 But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew -- , thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, -- that there was all the difference in the world. death dumbledore battle pride J.K. Rowling
df03f2e I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness. reason ardor changed-mind dispute open-mind argument force weakness victory pride pleasure Michel de Montaigne
86e9e9c For I am--or I was--one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all--a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named--but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey's bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well--by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion. virtue personality world life pride James Baldwin
a7c0646 "Rowan considered for a moment, and then said, "I have known many kings in my life, Dorian Havilliard. And it was a rare man indeed who asked for help when he needed it, who would put aside pride." empire-of-storms rowan pride Sarah J. Maas
3d28bb3 Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride. inspirational ignorance pride Garth Nix
5c5e3ee And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect. stupidity tolstoy dishonesty trickery intellect pride Leo Tolstoy
3323fa2 The girl wore her scars the way some women wore their finest jewelry. jewelry pride scars Sarah J. Maas
22a1070 Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. pride C.S. Lewis
31b8b9f Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass. shakespeare humor braggart bragging parroles ass humility pride William Shakespeare
b8d71b6 There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god. god belief pride Orhan Pamuk
5ed5bfd National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars. earth science astronomy folly nationalism space conceit pride human-nature Carl Sagan
0127d23 The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less. gospel humility pride sin Timothy Keller
376447a Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know. pride power Robert Fulghum
c5b94b1 Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts--not to hurt others. pride George Eliot
fdf2906 I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once. I said I don't want to talk about it. pride Tamora Pierce
5577880 I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. stars poetry life sense-of-wonder pride longing Roger Zelazny
2eba7e5 The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die. shield-wall reputation pride Bernard Cornwell
f160395 Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful. boasting pride Anonymous
8069bea Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. witty vanity pride George Eliot
43557ab Pride makes us long for a solution to things - a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear. solution purpose pride Julian Barnes
c4b1d85 I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit. television reading writing pride thought Stephen King
60eda8a And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...) metaphor purr smile pride Ray Bradbury
b820663 "The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead." leadership ghengis-khan historical-person mongols control pride Jack Weatherford
f02533e He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him. prejudice mr-thornton pride Elizabeth Gaskell
5f00bfd Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them. stock cry tears pride Judith McNaught
4083938 He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood. man responsibility stephen running pride manhood Stephen King
597f9fa The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. death-and-dying walter-scott wretch pride Walter Scott
11ec41b For men, the softer emotions are always intertwined with power and pride. That was why Karna waited for me to plead with him though he could have stopped my suffering with a single world. That was why he turned on me when I refused to ask for his pity. That was why he incited Dussasan to an action that was against the code of honor by which he lived his life. He knew he would regret it--in his fierce smile there had already been a glint of pain. But was a woman's heart any purer, in the end? That was the final truth I learned. All this time I'd thought myself better than my father, better than all those men who inflicted harm on a thousand innocents in order to punish the one man who had wronged them. I'd thought myself above the cravings that drove him. But I, too, was tainted with them, vengeance encoded into my blood. When the moment came I couldn't resist it, no more than a dog can resist chewing a bone that, splintering, makes his mouth bleed. Already I was storing these lessons inside me. I would use them over the long years of exile to gain what I wanted, no matter what its price. But Krishna, the slippery one, the one who had offered me a different solace, Krishna with his disappointed eyes--what was the lesson he'd tried to teach? men women pride power Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
c286f3c If you are embarrassed about your sex, it must mean that you feel there is something demeaning or disgusting about being female. You are all wondrously made, girls. Remember that: wondrously made, and you should carry your sex proudly, a badge of honor. sisterhood life womanhood pride sexuality Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
2b86e68 Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided. scourge pride Michel de Montaigne
32e5aec She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them. life inspirational strong pride Isabel Allende
8271413 "Relativism poses as humble by saying: "We are not smart enough to know what the truth is--or if there is any universal truth." It sounds humble. But look carefully at what is happening. It's like a servant saying: I am not smart enough to know which person here is my master--or if I even have a master. The result is that I don't have a master and I can be my own master. That is in reality what happens to relativists: In claiming to be too lowly to know the truth, they exalt themselves as supreme arbiter of what they can think and do. This is not humility. This is the essence of pride." relativism pride John Piper
a96bf98 When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility. pride Ken Follett
9903c8e St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, 'I have understood every page I ever read'. pride G.K. Chesterton
3e3b44f [Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark. pride Katherine Dunn
eee517f Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage. humor pride food Terry Pratchett
db45884 It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect. individual pride Ayn Rand
6c9871e "Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed." loss midway pride Haruki Murakami
39e2096 it is madness in al women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. women-s-strength pride Charlotte Brontë
3bc540f I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it. pride Alice Munro
eb4c62c No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper! prydain taren eilonwy pride Lloyd Alexander
2a99ee2 Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues -- faith and hope. hope love mother pride Charles Dickens
32e1545 I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones? skeleton pride jack-kerouac Jack Kerouac
018933f Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning. fair rule bite brawl killer lawless murderer no-holds-barred poisoner ruthless skirmish strike lose win pride fight Robin Hobb
17595cd How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts? self-centeredness pride George Eliot
0e58f98 I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile. family life mob mobster pride mafia honor protection loyalty Holly Black
207528b Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood. long-term-relationships pride E.M. Forster
78f281a "Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. It seems that they are very beautiful. And if not the butterflies- and the caterpillars- who will call upon me? You will be far away. . . as for the large animals- I am not at all afraid of any of them. I have my claws." And, navely, she showed her four thorns. Then she added: "Don't linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!" For she did not want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower. . ." -- caterpillars flowers pride Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
6b62e09 Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly human any more. I am the French Lieutenant's Whore. whore pity pride John Fowles
631ba14 Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. pride St. Augustine of Hippo
69b3f71 He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride. simplicity pride Ernest Hemingway
356fcd9 Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin. smugness pride sin Flannery O'Connor
069cc0b After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats. pride Max Brooks
151edd0 "He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved." self-assuredness truism pride Honoré de Balzac
4850765 In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good. population-growth pride Saul Bellow
9e7be1c A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword hedge-knight pride George R.R. Martin
e43e3fd What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, that there was another angle in all those years when she was growing old and older and very old, and Grandfather was matching her year for year, a separate line that did not intersect with hers. They were vertical people, they lived by pride, and it is only by the ocular illusion of perspective that they can be said to have met. But he had not been dead two months when she lay down and died too, and that may indicate that at that absolute vanishing point they did intersect. They had intersected for years, for more than he especially would ever admit. marriage love intersection life-lines resignation married-life parallels perspective matrimony separation pride Wallace Stegner
4efecb2 Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight? christopher-marlowe faust-legend faustian faustus marlowe pride icarus faust E.A. Bucchianeri
913a968 For when a woman resists an unwelcome passion, she is obeying to the full the law of her sex; the initial gesture of refusal is, so to speak, a primordial instinct in every female, and even if she rejects the most ardent passion she cannot be called inhuman. But how disastrous it is when fate upsets the balance, when a woman so far overcomes her natural modesty as to disclose her passion to a man, when, without the certainty of its being reciprocated, she offers her love, and he, the wooed, remains cold and on the defensive! An insoluble tangle this, always; for not to return a woman's love is to shatter her pride, to violate her modesty. The man who rejects a woman's advances is bound to wound her in her noblest feelings. In vain, then, all the tenderness with which he extricates himself, useless all his polite, evasive phrases, insulting all his offers of mere friendship, once she has revealed her weakness! His resistance inevitably becomes cruelty, and in rejecting a woman's love he takes a load of guild upon his conscience, guiltless though he may be. Abominable fetters that can never be cast off! love male-perspective modesty rejection pride unrequited-love Stefan Zweig
12d1beb English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy). racism bill-o-reilly blue-collar-snobbery egalitarianism proud-ignorance tea-party-movement pride-and-prejudice narcissism elitism pride Nassim Nicholas Taleb
a977199 Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart. pride Julie Garwood
70a917a Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence. confidence pride-in-office pride sin Peter Tremayne
f70b9d1 They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains. money relationships greed society pride Richard Kadrey
baaf609 I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned. I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command not obey. love individual pride Ayn Rand
87957f7 I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love. work love effort pride Craig Ferguson
855cc19 When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [...] fate-s-edge ilona-andrews the-edge pride dragon Ilona Andrews
83cb55e Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all personality happiness esteem settle proud pride Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15fee80 I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it. stupidity ignorance pride Bill Maher
e76539d "I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame. And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: "I." god individual pride Ayn Rand
fa8f438 "Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position"." marriage love ljewin levin pride Leo Tolstoy
c04505d I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume. But you must stubbornly walk into that room, regardless, and you must hold your head high. You made it; you get to put it out there. Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given. You were invited, and you showed up, and you simply cannot do more that that. They might throw you out - but then again, they might not. They probably won't throw you out, actually. The ballroom is often more welcoming and supportive than you could ever imagine. Somebody might even think you're brilliant and marvelous. You might end up dancing with royalty. Or you might just end up having to dance alone in the corner of the castle with your big, ungainly red foam claws waving in the empty air. that's fine, too. Sometimes it's like that. What you absolutely must not do is turn around and walk out. Otherwise, you will miss the party, and that would be a pity, because - please believe me - we did not come all this great distance, and make all this great effort, only to miss the party at the last moment. individuality motivation inspirational support hard-work work-ethic pride creativity Elizabeth Gilbert
d04cc7b "They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of you. I've watched you fight. It's not training with you. Put a good edge on your sword, and they'd be dead meat; you know it, I know it, they know it. You leave them nothing. You shame them. Does that make you proud?" compassion learning inspiring life-lessons things-to-remember george-r-r-martin jon-snow game-of-thrones the-wall humble pride George R.R. Martin
a6eb942 ...women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ... pride William Faulkner
61b2b07 She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes. gratification watching pride artist Anne Brontë
ae8d583 There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness. unhappiness love pride P.D. James
36296f2 " "Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy." nationality english pride Beryl Markham
54e2a49 I am only a peasant by position, not by nature! tess nobility honour pride Thomas Hardy
36e771c But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it's that much more of an insult, that you're not even worth noticing. hate politics ignorance insulting pride Bill Maher
b5ea3fa Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail. pride Jonathan Swift
212ac20 We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends. stubbornness rage offense pride Salman Rushdie
898f119 Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away poems poetry writing pins ennui pin sadism sadist pride Norman Mailer
143abbd They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn. destiny future-plans pride Esmeralda Santiago
2875f3a Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt. pride Ayn Rand
fa22159 ...it was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder; it was a simple, urgent matter of public pride, a matter of how much I had in common with other people. pride Richard Wright
4968e23 Druids were supposed to be forces of preservation, not destruction, and I could not dance around the fact that my stupid pride had turned me into a misbegotten cockwaffle. pride Kevin Hearne
4610992 It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too. pride Graham Greene
c1942bf Listen to me. Forget all you saw. Leave it. Take your mind from it. It has nothing to do with you. But use it for experience. Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women...And another thing let it do. There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is not room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw today, so come Captains and the Kings and the Tinkers and the Tailors. Let the memory direct your dealings with men and women. And be sure to take good care of Mama. Is it? kindness women pride wit Richard Llewellyn
b412a98 "I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be desirable, it may win you praise from those who have happily survived you and prospered from your deeds, but you have committed ignoble acts, and have been too proud to own them. I have waited patiently here, hoping that you would come to me, for if you understood, then some of your acts would be mitigated. But instead you send me this manuscript, proud, magisterial, and demonstrating only that you have understood nothing at all." "I returned to public life on your advice, madam," he said stiffly. "Yes; I advised it. I said if learning must die it should do so with a friend by its bedside. Not an assassin." -- virtue injustice killing good learning philosophy public-office doctrine prosperity peace pride vice soul values evil Iain Pears
d05fb17 Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting. legalism intimacy-with-god pride Beth Moore
f129b6e "Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you." "Why?" "Because of what you are. Just exactly because of what you are you will be by far the most vulnerable. You must stay with Meg and Calvin. You must not go off on your own. Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you." pride Madeleine L'Engle
fea9b82 For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity when looking upon it. Our body was not like the bodies of our brothers, for our limbs were straigth and thin and hard and strong. And we thought that we could trust this being who looked upon us from the stream, and that we had nothing to fear with this being. freedom individual pride Ayn Rand
368dfcb There are few things so tender as a man's dignity. pride Robin Hobb
85ed068 The marine corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist. Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swabjockies, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because those candyasses don't know how to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not, he will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. The artist must be like that marine: he has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier, or swabbie, or desk jockey, because this is war, baby, and war is hell. war bitterness soldier misery pride Steven Pressfield
8834e8c We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it. freedom-of-thought pride Ayn Rand
0b27448 Men's pride is situated in their scrotums. men scrotum pride Marjane Satrapi
e0e6ff0 Our people once were warriors. But unlike you, Jake, they were people with mana, pride; people with spirit. If my spirit can survive living with you for eighteen years, then I can survive anything. maori new-zealand pride Alan Duff
c6541d5 The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. courage pride Pat Conroy
406133a In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, but not anymore. The proud could be proud with impunity, because there was nobody to contradict him in his pride and because narcissism was no longer considered a vice. That was what the whole cult of celebrity was about, she thought; and we feted these people and fed their vanity. narcisissism vanity pride Alexander McCall Smith
2923320 I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride. welfare pride George R.R. Martin
58f65f4 It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own. flesh pride George Eliot
a153a3b It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder revolution pride Laura Ingalls Wilder
f2b0491 Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside. depravity flesh hypocrisy selfishness pride Barbara W. Tuchman
e3de387 But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested. bribery bureaucracy pride Tahir Shah
9b0a402 My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it. temper pride Charlaine Harris
1a916de I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.' I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified; and I ran after him - he stood at the foot of the stairs. happiness embarassment pride Charlotte Brontë
55e650d "That will solve nothing, my lord." His wife strode into the kitchen, stiff pride shining in her eyes. "I told you to keep her in hand." Brodick glared at his cousin, wondering just when his life had turned inside out. Druce scowled at the sweet smile Brodrick's wife cast toward him. He lifted his finger and pointed at her. "She bit me." -- humor pride Mary Wine
6246715 Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant. thinking pride John Piper
5dbfb93 No matter how old I get, I keep running into people who are smarter, nobler, and kinder. I really ought to start listening to them and telling my pride to shut up. I had gods tell me not to go to Asgard. I had witches tell me not to go to Flagstaff. You told me this plan wouldn't work. But I barreled ahead anyway for my own reasons. I still have plenty of growing to do. pride Kevin Hearne
7deb38b Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower. love sir-richard wallflower julia-quinn pride Julia Quinn
4d396d9 I've enough pride never to let myself love a man who does not love me. pride unrequited-love Leo Tolstoy
3150a10 "He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander" -- openness pride Barbara W. Tuchman
752c450 And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all? mankind humanity fear truth ambitious-minds ambitious-people driven idlesness self-motivated haunted human-condition grace self-loathing self-hate fall fire pride Joseph Conrad
60143f1 There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering. leadership insularity pride Frank Herbert
6b12bcb Satan fell by the force of gravity. satan pride sin G. K. Chesterton
d3abe16 "It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential. [check for wording] Proper pride says, "I'm good at this." Improper pride says, "I'm better than you." proud skill pride creativity James A. Owen
952f9b6 He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ... sadness resiliance north-and-south pride Elizabeth Gaskell
b11d297 In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride--or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation--takes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we seek to do is assert how well things are going for us, just as friendship has a chance to grow only when we fare to share what we are afraid of and regret. The rest is merely showmanship. The flaws whose exposure we so dread, the indiscretions we know we would be mocked for, the secrets that keep our conversations with our so-called friends superficial and inert--all of these emerge as simply part of the human condition. friendship human-condition masks vanity pride Alain de Botton
e603978 If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him. man jesus god the-cross pride power Fulton J. Sheen
2631d45 Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall In company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small, things priceless and worthless. A first water diamond, an empty spool bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. in your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held so much like the jumble in the bags could they be emptied that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place, who knows? sanguine pride Zora Neale Hurston
adbfa5d We have invented a moral sense which is rotting now that we can't give it employment, and when a moral sense begins to rot, it is worse than when you had none. I suppose that all endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end, as my precious civilization was, contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. spiritual-warfare pride T.H. White
55c82e3 People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor. reputation pride T.H. White
ac8033e In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying. lust pride wickedness Daniel Defoe
0b24799 Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes from the dazzling light of his presence. history funny louis-xiv reverence north-and-south respect pride france Elizabeth Gaskell
f11f30d She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a transgression. And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all? mankind humanity fear truth ambitious-minds ambitious-people driven idlesness self-motivated haunted human-condition grace self-loathing self-hate fall fire pride Joseph Conrad
8d0d9d6 But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie. love pride A.S. Byatt
067a217 This very pride in keeping his word was that he was keeping it to miscreants. It was his last triumph over these lunatics to go down into their dark room and die for something that they could not even understand. The barrel-organ seemed to give the marching tune with the energy and the mingled noises of a whole orchestra; and he could hear deep and rolling, under all the trumpets of the pride of life, the drums of the pride of death. life pride G.K. Chesterton
52a8a6d Pride goes before a fall. fire-and-blood fall pride failure George R.R. Martin
4fb2b6f Ambiades, I realized, was the kind of person who liked to put people in a hierarchy, and he wanted me to understand that I was at the bottom of his. He was supposed to treat me politely in spite of my subservient position, and I was supposed to be grateful. For my part, I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one. I might bow to the superior force of the magus and Pol, but I wasn't going to bow to him. Neither of us moved. hierarchy pride Megan Whalen Turner
af29bb0 O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego if we know that others will find out about them and think well of us. It is a deadly addiction for esteem that we have. prayer faith religion pride John Piper
04b2e96 Coming of queer age in the 1990s, to love queers was to love damage. To love damage was a path to loving yourself. ...Queers do not come out of the minefield of homophobia without scars. We do not live through out families' rejection of us, our stunted life options, the violence we've faced, the ways in which we've violated ourselves for survival, our harmful coping mechanisms, our lifesaving delusions, the altered brain chemistry we have sustained as a result of this, the low income and survival states we've endured as a result of society's loathing, unharmed. Whatever of theses wounds I didn't experience firsthand, my lovers did, and so I say that, for a time, it was not possible to have queer love that was not ins some way damaged or defined by damage sustained, even as it desperately fought through that damage to access, hopefully, increasingly frequent moments of sustaining, lifesaving love, true love, and loyalty, and electric sex. love queer pride Michelle Tea
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