Lowering Pride Quotes & Sayings

No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become. — Matthew Desmond

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet. — Paul Shepard

You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. — F Scott Fitzgerald

My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price. — Samuel Morse

The entire second-period sophomore girls' PE class thought my balls were uniquely and supremely beneath contempt. Great. — Frank Portman

The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. They contain many marvels - peculiarly artistic,1 beautiful, and moving: 'mythical' in their perfect, self-contained significance; and among the marvels is the greatest and most complete conceivable eucatastrophe. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I have withered within me all human hope. With every silent leap of a sullen beast, I have downed and strangled every joy.
I have called for executioners; I want to perish chewing on their gun butts. I have called for plagues, to suffocate in sand and blood. Unhappiness has been my god. I have lain down in the mud, and dried myself off in the crime-infested air. I have played the fool to the point of madness. — Arthur Rimbaud

Before the use of asteroids, the only significators of the feminine in traditional chart interpretation were the Moon and Venus. — Demetra George

Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind. — Gwen Harwood

I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life. — Lesley Manville

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure. — Lee Morgan

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give. — Sylvia Plath