Pieces Quote by Laurie R. King Download Open image “Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.” — Laurie R. King ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pieces Poor Pride Small pieces
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Pride is a time to celebrate what makes us unique and the more we let young people know that those things that make us… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
“When ambitious men overcome a dynasty and seize power, they inevitably adopt most of the ways of their predecessors. —THE Muqaddimah OF IBN KHALDÛN” — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“I did not think of myself as a detective; I was a student of theology, and I was to spend my life in exploration,… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre. — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“The night air moved up towards the Downs, washing over sea and orchard. I breathed it in, and thought that henceforth, loneliness would smell… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“-in New York, a cat could look at a king. Hell, a cat could get himself elected king. But in England, where people had… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“Margery," I blurted out in a passion of frustration. "I don't know what to make of you!" Nor I you, Mary. Frankly, I cannot… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russell." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell books. That's… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
It's amazing how someone can break your heart, but you still love them with all the little pieces. — Sajid Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
