“I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.” ThinkingLittlesSelfAbleFightingBitsWalksRecordsWillingPrideLittle BitSakeSelf Respect Author:Ryan Adams
“It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.” MaySelfFactsLostFearBitsEmotionalPrideEqualLosingWeaknessEmptyOppositesIndependenceDesertSelfishnessMaskCowardFearfulIntimidatedWithout LoveCowardlyTentsPersonificationBarricadesPolar OppositesAfraid To LoveLove Strength Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.” LittlesGivenBitsWrittenPrideLittle BitPassagesGiven UpStink Author:J. D. Salinger
“You – help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects.” PeopleHumansHelpingBitsHuman BeingsFieldsPrideProfessionHelping OthersExpertsProspects Author:Chris Murray
“I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.” IfsMenWayI CanHateBitsWorkPleasureToo MuchMinutesPrideArmsGoes OnShotsToolsI HateDelightStrikesClockStrokesGrindstone Book:Four Novels of George Eliot Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure - it is much too broad and narrow, - Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride, And not in prowess, but pride undefined, Autonomous in its unthought demands, A bit of vanity, but mostly pride.” SelfMomentsNamesSexBitsSleepPleasurePrideDemandVanityDemonBroadsAutonomousProwessUndefined Author:J. V. Cunningham
“Despite history, despite English, despite the noteworthies, and a little bit also despite ourselves, alas!, the Quebecois people have stayed French. I had violently returned. This people had no need of directives to affirm its French pride in the face of the whole world” PeopleWorldNeedsLittlesWholeFacesBitsPrideLittle BitWhole WorldDespiteAlas Author:Pierre Bourgault
“I really don't listen to anyone that I'm not proud of saying that I listen to. Even if it's something a little bit more unexpected, I didn't get too deep into the Waka, Gucci records, but I like those with pride.” IfsLittlesBitsRecordsPrideProudLittle BitUnexpectedToo DeepGucci Author:Solange Knowles
“The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.” LittlesDoneHumanityIndividualBitsWorkPiecesPrideLittle BitMachinesMeritDefectsMachinery Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.” LittlesSometimesBitsPrideLuckyLittle BitLoserPetty Author:Tom Petty
“There's always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the controversy I think that what I managed to do less, and I take a great deal of pride in the accomplishment.” ThinkingNeedsLittlesBitsDealsPrideConflictLittle BitAccomplishmentDragonsControversy Author:Hugh Hefner