Quotes About Pride

Truce, she decided and held out a hand. When he only stared at her,she gave a quick huff and swallowed another morsel of pride. Please. Trapped by the single word,he took the offered hand. All right. When she would have drawn her hand away, he tightened his grip. Why? I don't know, Gennie told him with fresh impatience. Just a wild urge to see if I can get along with an ogre. At the ironic lift of his brow, she sighed. All right,that was just a quick slip.I take it back.

If love isn't stronger than pride, it isn't love.

It's my job to see it. It's your gift, she corrected. Your family must be proud of you. She spoke casually, began to eat again, then stared at him, baffled, when he laughed. Why is that funny? Pride wouldn't exactly be part of their general outlook to my way of thinking. Why? People can't find pride in what they don't understand.Not all families, Keeley, are as cozy as yours.

When people break your heart, pride's all you've got left.

When people break your heart, pride's all you've got left. And pride, could turn cold and bitter without heart.

Fine, a Lithuanian couple gets lost because, like men across the globe, he values his penis—among other things—as a compass. So he's incapable of asking for directions and thereby disparaging the power of his penis.

Perhaps it was simple reflex, her own instinct for survival. Or perhaps it had been his words, bringing back the horror of her mother's death. But when he reached for the satchel, Adrianne ignored the knife and brought her foot up hard between his legs. The knife clattered to the ground only seconds before he did. Bastard, she muttered as she sent the knife careening into the dark. Now your pride's as small as your brain and just as useless. Well put, Philip said as he came up behind her.

There was no monster so fierce or so vulnerable as a man's ego.

Or she could remember that sometimes pride was less important than doing what had to be done. She

Love and pride don't belong together.

You'd better watch out for gopher holes, Tory. That's a very high horse you are standing on.

Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride.

Owning land, he mused, being responsible for it. Plowing, planting, tending, watching things grow. Keeping an eye on the sky, sniffing the air for a turn in the weather. Not a life for Grayson Thane, he thought, but imagined some would find it rewarding. There'd been that simple pride of ownership in Murphy Muldoon's walk—a man who knew his feet were planted on his own.

And all he'd really bruised was her pride.

Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride. One's cold without the other.

Norman L. Geisler

In 1992, bragging about your area code was a collective expression of the community where you were. By 2002, it was an individual connection to the place you had left.

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash. I am Ozymandias, king of kings.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.

For the white man, his guilt was his biggest badge of accomplishment. Only whites killed the planet with global warming so only whites could save it. Their boasting never let up.

Yes, Icarus fell to earth after flying too close to the sun, but what a glorious fall it must have been. Almost worth the flaming wings tied to his arms, waving helplessly in a shower of

It amounted to a pornography of being right. No orgasm would be as satisfying as proving everyone else wrong.

People really need somebody they feel superior to.