Like for Putin it's really about hosting this two-week [Olympic] party and showing it off to the world.It's a pride thing. It's… — Gary Hustwit Copy Share Image
“The next Post brought a reply from the starets, who wrote to him that the cause of all his trouble lay in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Even if they were willing to let you remove your Pride from the council's collective influence—and they won't be—there's a reason the… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“I know this kind of person. I've known them all my life. They get the sympathy of others with what passes for… — Anne Rampling Copy Share Image
I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“For men, the softer emotions are always intertwined with power and pride. That was why Karna waited for me to plead with… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Greatness means having pride in yourself, being happy with yourself, knowing you’ve worked for something and couldn’t have done anything more. That… — Lewis Howes Copy Share Image
People keep asking me why I don't stop fighting. I'll stop when I want to stop. I'm the only athlete to win… — Mauricio Rua Copy Share Image
“Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the… — T. Coleman Andrews Copy Share Image
You know I was there for you every single moment. You weren't there when I really needed you. You preferred someone else… — Mahmoud El Hallab Copy Share Image
I want to touch u. ur body heat to me is vauge as sun. but I wont give in because if I… — Ne-yo Copy Share Image
A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride,… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall Copy Share Image
“Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Some men you know are Southern before they ever say a word," Julia said as she and Emily watched Sawyer's progress, helpless,… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She's my pride, my winning prize, always a surprise, to look into her eyes, see her free soul, as soap that slips… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of… — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image
“There's blood pounding through the Duke's head. Knighthood is glory, he's thinking, not just grace in the saddle and at swordplay, but… — Vanora Bennett Copy Share Image
“I've seen temples feed on fear, graves labeled as pride - I've seen nations crowned with glory, yet cruelty inside. But I've… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky.… — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
“The poet who sees himself as a hero or a prophet, or a priest of the socio-political forces to which he is… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an… — George Ade Copy Share Image
There's a pride in representing your country on a stage like the sport of wrestling, which I've done since I was five… — Jordan Burroughs Copy Share Image
Few things give me more pride and hope for our future than when I see women, of all ages and backgrounds, in… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
Behind the fury, he was tired. He was tired of being hauled around and shoved into a little room. He was tired… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I mean, I take that with the biggest amount of pride there could possibly be because I have so many idols of… — Kim Zmeskal Copy Share Image
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
Other lands may have their charms, and the sunny skies of other climes may be regretted, but it is with pride and… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“Ere long, I learned that it was not myself, but only my shadow, that I had lost. I learned that it is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Never become proud within yourself when you are seen as the one to cause that great effect. Never become timid if you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image