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“Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.”
“Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.”
Source: Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household
“Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.”
Source: Beauty and the BeastLa Belle et la Bête English-French Parallel Text Edition
“Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.”
“Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.”
“Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.”
Source: Essays and aphorisms
“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions
“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions
“Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.”
“Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.”
“Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician”
Source: Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis
“Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.”
Source: The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
“Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.”
Source: The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt
“Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope
“Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.”
“Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
“Pride... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong.”
“Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience. (…) I was to discover that making tasty soup with one carrot, ten peas and a little dishwater, was his greatest skill. One wondered what the man would be capable of creating with a blender and a non-stick frying-pan.”
Source: Beyond the Devil's Teeth: Journeys in Gondwanaland
“Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.”
“Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!”
“Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.”
Source: Priests: A Calling in Crisis
“Priesthood, Imamhood, Pundithood often come hand in hand with tyranny.”
“Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.”
“Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.”
“Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ, both anciently and today, is His authority. There can be no true Church without divine authority.”
“Priesthood lies in praying.”
“Priesthood ordinances are the pathway to the power of godliness.”
“Priesthood power blesses all of us. Priesthood keys direct women as well as men, and priesthood ordinances and priesthood authority pertain to women as well as men.”
“Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.”
Source: Experimental Medicine
“Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes.”
“Priestly stewardship suggests that creation is not just for us, that it has purpose independent of the uses we can make of it. All of creation-human and nonhuman alike-exists ultimately for God and to the praise of God.”
“Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”
“Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.”
“Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.”
Source: The Thomas Paine Reader
“Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.”
“Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.”
Source: Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill
“Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.”
“Priests are the very offspring of God and share in his likeness. Our lineage is from heaven, which makes us hybrids of heaven and earth, though the scales tip in the direction of heaven. We are more connected to heaven than is the rest of creation. We are children priests or, since our Father is the king, we are royal priests who can enjoy his companionship as he actually enjoys ours.”
Source: Created to Draw Near: Our Life as God's Royal Priests
“Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to be entertained.”
“Priests are viewed by many as stoic, even heroic, to voluntarily choose to never marry or engage in sexual activity for the rest of their lives. Others think, “What man in his right mind would make such a promise?”
Source: A Saint and a Sinner: The Rise and Fall of a Beloved Catholic Priest
“Priests discovered this principle thousands of years ago. It underlies numerous religious ceremonies and commandments. If you want to make people believe in imaginary entities such as gods and nations, you should make them sacrifice something valuable. The more painful the sacrifice, the more convinced people are of the existence of the imaginary recipient. A poor peasant sacrificing a priceless bull to Jupiter will become convinced that Jupiter really exists, otherwise how can he excuse his stupidity? The peasant will sacrifice another bull, and another, and another, just so he won’t have to admit that all the previous bulls were wasted. For exactly the same reason, if I have sacrificed a child to the glory of the Italian nation, or my legs to the communist revolution, it’s enough to turn me into a zealous Italian nationalist or an enthusiastic communist. For if Italian national myths or communist propaganda are a lie, then I will be forced to admit that my child’s death or my own paralysis have been completely pointless. Few people have the stomach to admit such a thing.”
Source: Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.”
“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”
“Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.”
Source: Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld
“Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.”
Source: The Works of ...: Containing I. Phaedra and Hippolitus, II. A Poem on Thr Death of Mr. Philips, III. Bodleian Speech, IV Pocochius, To which is Prefix'd
“Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.”
“Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.”
“Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.”
“Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.”
Source: The Character of a Convent: Displayed in the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk ; Being a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Black Nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal ; to which is Added Confirmatory Notes and Affidavits Whereby Maria Monk's Disclosures are Most Fully Proved, and the Hideous Nature of the Conventual System are Exposed