Prides Quotes
20 quotes by 20 authors
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A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a…
— Mia Freedman
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One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is…
— Immanuel Kant
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We are a country that prides itself on power and wealth, yet there are millions of children who go hungry every day. It is our…
— Lesley Boone
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It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself…
— Julius Evola
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One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the…
— Nicholas Negroponte
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Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who…
— Charles Studd
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Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation...
— Seneca the Younger
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Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or later…
— John Desmond Bernal
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He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.
— Shang Yang
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Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has…
— Jerry Saltz
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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life…
— Eve Curie
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To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on…
— Graydon Carter
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A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do,…
— Saint Bernard
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A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground
— Spanish Proverb
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Rock it all please if you want this tonight ladies look at how much he prides, tonight dont come to close cuz we might, delight…
— Tami Chynn
Who Wrote These Prides Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 20 Prides Quotes as follows: