Pride Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image “She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pride
“For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him. Proud that in a cause of compassion and honour, he had been able… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“From what you know of her, you will not be surprised that she threw some exaggeration and wilfulness, some pride and impetuosity, even into… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“…In the very simplicity of her desire to punish herself appeared egoism in its purest form. Never before had this woman who seemed to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
“She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
She might not be as beautiful, or as smart or as rich as all the rest of them. But she had her pride — Tilly Bagshawe Copy Share Image
“Divine pride, or remembering one’s ultimate identity as a deity, is qualitatively different from arrogance, for it is not motivated by a sense of… — Sera Beak Copy Share Image
“She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She was the kind of person who took care of things by herself. She’d never ask anybody for advice or help. It wasn’t a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, but not anymore. The proud could be proud with impunity, because there was nobody to contradict him in his pride and because narcissism was no longer considered a vice. That was what the whole cult of celebrity was about, she thought; and we… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills the ice-cube tray, who unloads the clean dishwasher, who occasionally pees in the shower, whose eyelid twitches on first dates; that only we take casualness terribly seriously; that only we fashion supplication into courtesy; that only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to those worst dreams' form itself: the sudden intra-dream realization that the nightmares' very essence and center has been with you all along, even awake: it's just been ... overlooked ; and then that horrific interval between… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it's because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that's where phrases like 'deadly dull' or 'excruciatingly dull' come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only a matter of time before you start believing deep down that everything is sales and marketing, and that whenever somebody seems like they care about you or about some noble idea or cause, that person is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable… It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
There are things that you think about in your life that you're proud of, some things that you're not proud of. — Jim Kelly Copy Share Image
Be proud of who you are & who you represent.You are unique, there is no other exactly like you. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
I get paid to play, to win, to give the city pride, so maybe everybody can forget for a little while how hard life… — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image
“For all his frustrations and his chronic sense of being overburdened. He was proud of that; he’d always felt that it was worth doing a task properly if it was worth doing at all. That was part of his problem, of course; that was why he ended up with so much to do. It was also the source of his… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share
Britain should take pride in a foreign policy that reflects her values and responsibilities - but it must be grounded in the tangible interests… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Less of me and all I'm trying to be. Building my kingdom just to find it so short of your glory I'm a traitor… — Zion Y Lennox Copy Share Image
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
“Where there are kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed), there is worldly life. As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed exist; one is a sansaari [living a worldly life] regardless of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
![“Where there are kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed), there is worldly life. As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed exist; one is a sansaari [living a worldly life] regardless of whether one is an ascetic or a family man. And where anger-pride-deceit-greed are absent, one is regarded as being asansaari…” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7ec/dada-bhagwan-31_anger_where-there-are-kashays-anger-pride-dece_5756.jpg)
![“I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit in, and raise it to another level if I can. And this [Code Black ] has been another one of those really fun success stories, much like Parks And Recreation, although obviously…” quote by Rob Lowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ea3/rob-lowe-855_black_i-kind-of-pride-myself-on-coming-onto-th_6557.jpg)