Puffed Quotes
42 quotes by 42 authors
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Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me,…
— Jennifer Aniston
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His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old…
— Stephen King
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Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a…
— Frederick The Great
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Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of…
— Seneca the Younger
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He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.
— Steven Morrissey
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Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of…
— Alfred the Great
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Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.
— Neil Steinberg
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Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when…
— Aristotle
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To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.
— Tony Abbott
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Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of…
— Red Auerbach
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I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the…
— Edmund Burke
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A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way…
— Julie Murphy
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My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving…
— George Grosz
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Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble,…
— Laozi
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What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker…
— Saint Augustine
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Perfection... is clearly not achieved simply by being naked, by the lack of wealth or by the rejection of honors, unless there is also that…
— John Cassian
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If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up,…
— Adyashanti
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