Priding Ourselves Quotes & Sayings

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Give what thou commandest and command what thou wilt — Augustine Of Hippo

Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone. — Paul Theroux

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. — E. Stanley Jones

If our bodies are sick, we seek to heal them. We do not give up. The same thing should be true of our marriages. — Dallin H. Oaks

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it — Desmond Tutu

Part of growing up is not waiting in line at a hipster breakfast restaurant. The eggs taste the same across the street. I promise. — Jason Segel

A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation. — Matthew Henry

When I was three years old, I had race-car wallpaper, a race-car bed, race-car toys. That was all I wanted. And nothing has changed. Except I don't have a race-car bed anymore.? — Joey Logano

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up. — Bobby Fischer

The illusion they cherish of being a brave minority heroically facing the whole world, false as it is, gives them nevertheless a strange sense of comfort: they feel absolutely safe, being equipped with the most powerful political tools in today's world but at the same time priding themselves on their courage and decency, which are more formidable the more awesome the image of the enemy becomes. — Ryszard Legutko

John's explosion left Abigail in a quandary. Priding herself on being a good wife, she cheerfully accepted that her main role was to soothe the cares of her adored if sometimes baffling spouse. Being a wife required at least the appearance of submission. On the other hand, it would be cruel to abandon a husband altogether to his follies when it was so easy to correct him with a little tact. — Diane Jacobs

But he had seen so little of life and the world himself, that he could scarcely help being one-sided and narrow-minded; and as he would not avail himself of his father's wider knowledge, what remained but to make mistakes? So, priding himself on an inflexible firmness in matters of "principle," however small, he confounded together things indifferent and important; did even wise ones foolishly; and attempted others which were neither wise, nor worth a hundredth part of the offence they created. "We — Mrs. Alfred Gatty

Are you aware, Mr Mayor, then when casually scrying the streets of London, you stand out like a giraffe on roller skates, yes? — Kate Griffin

A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences. — Luke Bryan

Pioneering is the work of individuals ... — Susanne Katherina Langer

Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience. — Ben Bernanke

You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else. — George Weinberg

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts. — Anne Bradstreet

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored. — Pauline Kael

This ideal of glory and grandeur--which consists not merely in considering that nothing wrong that one does but in priding oneself on every crime once commits. — Leo Tolstoy

A Jedi can't get so caught up in matters of galactic importance that it interferes with his concern for individual people. — Timothy Zahn

Hatred and greed are heavy loads. Your motive, on the other hand, is love. And instead of priding yourselves on your cunning, you recognize how weak you are ... so weak that you must depend totally on the Spirit of God. — Brother Andrew