Quotes of: Great-pride Keyword

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.

Flaubert's Parrot

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

Five Little Pigs

It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.

Family Ties

Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful...

Breaking Pride

Too many leaders fancy themselves on being philosophers, but not enough pride themselves on decisive action.

44 Days of Leadership

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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.

Anna Karenina

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

Atlas Shrugged

Pride filled him. He'd put that soft look in her eye, the purr in her voice, and given her loose limbed ease.

Hollywood on Tap

All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique

Incarceron

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

Rise of the Morningstar

Do not shy away from the sensations I create, Cherry Blossom. Take pride in them, as I do.

Socrates Inspires Cherry to Blossom

The Mind may relish the companionship of bloated self-pride - but the Soul, will not.

The Soul Whisperer : A Trilogy of Soul Awakening, Revelations & Insights

She was a Seeker now, marked for life. She had thought this brand would be an eblem of pride, but now it meant something entirely different. She was damned.

Seeker

Get a grip on your heart and pride, girl. Nobody has or ever will give a damn whether you're happy or not.

A Man In A Kilt

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.

The Maze Maker

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".

Lud-in-the-Mist

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Mere Christianity

It is a defeat of the spirit to learn one's arrogance causes such loss and pain. Pride invites you to soar to heights and the footing, tentative. farther, then, is the fall.

Starless Night

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

Scattered Poems