Puffed Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud. — Saint John Chrysostom
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
Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government. — Neil Steinberg
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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