“Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.” MenEndsUsePrideMadnessDancingDanceVanityProfitablePiousDepravedInbredsNecessary Use Author:William Prynne
“Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden.... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.” WorldEndsBigsJoyPrideGratitudeOffersCreatingGardenDelightAppreciationNeighborLandscapeCheerOwnershipSmallestThankfulnessCheerfulnessJoyfulness Author:Julie Moir Messervy
“Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam... These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world.” WorldEndsTodayAmericaMilitaryEventsPrideTragicVietnamEnd Of The WorldVietnam War Author:Gerald R. Ford
“We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds.” YearsLittlesEndsAmericaCoursesSpeakNationsPrideBandGloryYears AgoDeedsAdmirationOdds Author:Ronald Reagan
“O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.” EndsHellFirePrideLustSmokeFlamesFuelAshesSparkleGluttonyWantonInfamy Book:The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems Source: The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems
“When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.” IfsWayFirstsEndsHandsDesirePleasureBoysDoorsPrideLoversAgreeIceLet It GoIdenticalAcquisition Book:Sophocles: Fragments Source: Sophocles: Fragments
“I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.” ThinkingEndsSelfRememberDifficultPoorRichPridePitySelf PityRich Or PoorBeing Bad Author:Alejandro Zambra
“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.” PeopleMayMeanPersonsTwoEndsGrowsMoralSecurityExpressionPrideGoes OnHabitTasteNobleLove Each Other Book:The Best of Willa Cather Source: The Best of Willa Cather
“Connect with all the passions people have - for themselves, their families, their communities and wider world - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth, buy your products and services with pride, and may even be willing to work for you for next to nothing.” PeopleWorldMayEndsEarthPassionNextCommunityWillingProductsPride Author:Patrick Dixon