Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be… — Henry Tizard Copy Share Image
There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
God promises the Holy Spirit to us who believe in Christ, and the Spirit guides us in understanding. But within this life… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to… — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
“The old exhortations to nationalist fervor and jingoist pride have begun to lose their appeal. Perhaps because of rising standards of living,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub;… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour,… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
“Genuine self esteem – please understand this – genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative. Genuine self esteem isn’t expressed by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
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“It's my job to see it." "It's your gift," she corrected. "Your family must be proud of you." She spoke casually, began… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“The main reason I felt foolish and humiliated was because of - what had I called it to myself, only a few… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
After much deliberation, I have concluded that it is apt to say a real woman knows her place. Not because she is… — Kathleen Scott Copy Share Image
Here is an example to help you understand the efficacy of the Rosary. You remember the story of David who vanquished Goliath.… — Columba Marmion Copy Share Image
Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He whose sin is due to desires, then have hope for him. And he whose sin is due to pride, then fear… — Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah Copy Share Image
I think my time at West Brom was successful, that's my take on it. I look back on the work I did… — Steve Clarke Copy Share Image
If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
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I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character can say any line, because you… — Bill Lawrence Copy Share Image
The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are hated for the color of our skin or our beliefs, people will see you and judge you before they… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In… — King Alfred Copy Share Image
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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama was basically occupied by… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure - it is much too… — J. V. Cunningham Copy Share Image
“It is amazing how little we know about ourselves. God has o take us through all kinds of failures to reveal the… — June Hunt Copy Share Image
These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths, With dear companions now passed out of sight, Shall not be laid upon their graves. They… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
For me, being a part of the halcyon days of Pride Fighting Championships and then watching the explosion of the UFC following… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image