Prided Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to…
— Albert Einstein
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In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of…
— Margaret Beckett
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I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
— Dustin Diamond
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I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think…
— Jane Smiley
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Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from…
— Kerry Washington
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I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear…
— Wilt Chamberlain
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I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two…
— Jane Smiley
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to…
— Salman Rushdie
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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Any place you love is the world to youâ€, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early…
— Oscar Wilde
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The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he…
— Stacy Schiff
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I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and…
— Libba Bray
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They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,†they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new…
— Melina Marchetta
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One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil.…
— George Balanchine
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The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the…
— Eugene Jarecki
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For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a…
— Robbie Robertson
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It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.
— James Young
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I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good…
— Ezra Koenig
Who Wrote These Prided Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Prided Quotes as follows: