“Obviously, we've all had disagreements and differences in the past. I suspect we'll have them again in the future. But last night as Americans learned that the United States had carried out an operation that resulted in the capture and death of Osama bin Laden. I think we experienced the same sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. We were reminded again that there is a pride in what this nation stands for. And what we can achieve that runs far deeper than party, far deeper than politics.” ThinkingStatesRunningLastsPastNightNationsDifferencesUnitedPartyUnited StatesAchievePrideUnityDeeperOperationsSuspectsCaptureLast NightDisagreementBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Barack Obama
“It's a moment that I will be asked about for the rest of my life as an actor, and I carry that moment with pride, that Rita [in Dexter] had such an impact and that it was such a gut-wrenching moment for audience members.” MomentsActorsAudiencePrideMembersImpactGutsThat Moment Author:Julie Benz
“The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.” MayPrideStandardsTroops Author:Colin Powell
“I think Republicans now are recognizing that [Obamacare cancellation] may not be what the American people, including even [Donald] Trump voters, are looking for. And my hope is that the president-elect, members of Congress from both parties look at, "Where have we objectively made progress, where things are working better?" Don't undo things just because I did them. I don't have pride of authorship.” PeopleThinkingLooksMayMadePresidentPartyProgressPrideTrumpRepublicanMembersIncludingCongressVotersRecognizingObamacareAuthorshipCancellation Author:Barack Obama
“I can document this past week [of presidency] we've put out memos from every agency showing what did we do. Try to be as honest as possible. There's a little hype involved obviously. It's spin because it's our agencies. We feel some pride about it. But tried to be self-critical as well.” FeelsTryingWellsLittlesI CanSelfPastWeekHonestPrideInvolvedCriticalAgencyDocumentsPresidencyHypeMemos Author:Barack Obama
“I have a particular dislike of human pride. And if you think that you can engineer outcomes, that's a manifestation of pride. Among other things, it's impractical. It just doesn't work. The world doesn't work that way.” IfsThinkingWorldWayHumansParticularPrideManifestationOutcomesDislikeEngineers Author:Mark Helprin
“Literally as I walk into the studio I say, "God, hollow me of all my junk. Hollow me of my insecurity, my pride and my doubt. Make me hollow enough that you can breathe something through me that would turn eyes to you." And whether that's a song or a conversation you're going to have with a co-worker, or whatever you're facing, that's for everybody.” EnoughEyeSongTurnsWalksDoubtPrideConversationWorkersStudiosBreatheInsecurityHollowJunkCo Worker Author:TobyMac
“The only thing I can pride myself on is making a really good breakfast.” I CanPrideBreakfast Author:Freida Pinto
“I feel that I've always done things the hard way, and I've always felt a lot of pride in earning everything that I have.” WayFeelsHardDoneFeltPrideEarningHard Way Author:Christine Evangelista
“You have to really swallow your pride and admit that you want to make a comeback. And that means that you weren't at your best and I feel like I stopped being who I needed to be. When I started making this record "Born Villain", I didn't want to be what I used to be but I certainly didn't want to be what I was at the time. I knew that I was supposed to be something better then what I was. I feel that I am close to being what I'm supposed to be and am enjoying what I'm doing here.” WantFeelsMeanUsedEnjoyBornRecordsPrideNeededUsed To BeSupposed To BeVillainSomething BetterComeback Author:Marilyn Manson
“Your agent or manager tells you. They go, "You're out. They're gonna get a new guy." But then I didn't feel bad. I didn't take it personally. Not that I'm competitive at all. But you have pride in that, you know? You want your ratings to be good. But now that I'm 62, I don't really care about the ratings. I don't care about the reviews. I care about the work, and I care about the people that I'm working with, and I try to make the experience for them and myself as good as it can be.” PeopleTryingCareGuyPrideBe GoodI Care Author:Louie Anderson
“The number of those who have to be assimilated to the majority is not too high. It remains small compared with the numbers of the majority. But there is one thing - and that is the main reason for this digression - that French and British have in common: to this day they have an immense pride in being French, in being British. The fact that in the meantime both have come down to earth a little has not yet affected their pride in their own nationality and the fact that, if I may express it that way, they are mutual admiration societies: how fine the British are, how fine the French are.” ReasonEarthCommonPrideMutualAdmirationThis Day Author:Norbert Elias
“One has to give minority groups a kind of reward, an emotional reward, that it is worthwhile assimilating to this particular majority group. And if this majority group looks down on itself ... If a minority group is not given some pride in assimilating to the culture of another group then the process is very difficult.” GivingKindCultureDifficultEmotionalPride Author:Norbert Elias
“Sometimes when people get success they forget about the people that pointed them there or championed them into this position. I pride myself on really understanding. I wouldn't even call it keeping it real. I just call it keeping it me. When they tell me, "You're doing what you're supposed to do," it makes me go ten times even harder, because I know that there are people on the sidelines and they're watching me. They're cheering for me. I want to be the best me I could possibly be when it comes to them.” PeopleRealSometimesUnderstandingForgetPrideBeing The BestCheer Author:Young Jeezy
“I pride myself on being the nicest person in the room. My grandmother always told me, 'Manners will take you where money won't.' When I walk into a room, I say "hello" to everyone I don't care who the person is or what they do, it's simply being respectful.” CarePrideGrandmotherHelloMy GrandmotherRespectfulBe Respectful Author:Charlamagne Tha God
“It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the bad old U.S. where they had segregation, whites-only washrooms and hotels. We think we were the capital of the Underground Railroad, we were the place to where the slaves escaped, we were a much better country. But in fact, some of the black people in Canada at the time said, 'It's actually much easier in the United States because you know which hotels, restaurants, theatres won't let you in because the signs are there. In Canada, you never know.'” PeopleThinkingCountryBlackLaughingPrideSlaveTheatreHotelBlack PeopleDepressingSegregation Author:Constance Backhouse
“I feel like it's a lot easier to parody Democrats just because they take themselves so seriously. I think Republicans have a little bit more of an open mind as to how ridiculous they are. Democrats pride themselves in being the highbrow, smart, right choice.” ThinkingMindChoicesPrideRepublicanSmartDemocratRidiculousOpen Mind Author:Michael Che
“It is very, very rare where a slight that turns into a grudge that is in need of forgiveness is only about one of the parties. In most of our day-to-day situations - with colleagues at work, with your partner, with your children, with your friends - most of the time, if you really got down with each other and put aside your pride and your defensiveness and you had those hard conversations, you'd find a place where both people had something to ask for forgiveness from the other and to forgive the other.” PeopleChildrenPartySituationPrideOur ChildrenForgivingYour ChildrenGrudgeAsking For ForgivenessDefensiveness Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“People are tired of the humiliation that they don't want to be perceived as weak within the international community. And they are, therefore, actually quite grateful to President Putin for reinstating some sense of national pride.” PeoplePresidentCommunityPrideWeakGratefulTiredHumiliation Author:Clarissa Ward
“Being a sanctuary city, for the people of organize and run it, is a great source of pride. 'Social justice! Fairness, equality, diversity!" All the things that make liberals great people and make you a schlub. The more pressures and demands on their social services, the better people they are.” PeopleRunningJusticePrideDiversitySocial JusticeFairnessOrganizeGreat PeopleSocial Service Author:Rush Limbaugh
“God promises the Holy Spirit to us who believe in Christ, and the Spirit guides us in understanding. But within this life our understanding is limited, and contaminated by sin. Just because a person feels Spirit-led does not mean that he is. Pride remains, and our hearts easily deceive us.” BelieveHeartMeanSpiritUnderstandingChristSinPrideHolyPromiseHoly SpiritDeceiving Author:Vern Poythress
“The Orlando terrorist may be dead. But the virus that poisoned his mind remains very much alive. And we must attack it with clear eyes, steady hands, unwavering determination and pride in our country and our values.” MindCountryEyeValuesPrideDeterminationTerroristSteady Author:Hillary Clinton
“Obviously I think it's really important to look back at your history, and that's why I think things like Pride are important. It's not necessarily about your experience of life, it's not about whether you find it difficult to be gay; it's about the fact that people have fought over hundreds of years for this to be okay, and also that there are many countries in the world where it's still not, and it's very dangerous to be gay.” PeopleThinkingWorldImportantCountryDifficultDangerousPrideGayOkay Author:Shura
“When Teddy Roosevelt was around, there was an Ottoman Empire. There was a Habsburg empire. They controlled millions of people across Africa, the Middle East and Europe. And they're gone.Prosperity killed them, because they didn't have a way to hold the people together. They didn't have the rituals and the holidays and the pride in their country. And that's what we need if we're going to hold ourselves together during periods of prosperity.” PeopleCountryTogetherPrideProsperityHolidayRitualTeddy Author:Todd G. Buchholz
“The Republicans have, with some pride - George W. Bush won the White House by promising to restore dignity to the Oval Office. And they were or presented themselves as the family - the party of family values.” ValuesHousePartyPrideRepublicanOfficeDignityFamily Values Author:Mark Shields
“I box because my father made me a warrior, and that doesn't necessarily have to mean a bad thing, either! After, it became for pleasure, pride, and because it's in my blood. This sports made me the man I am.” MenMeanFatherSportsPleasureHe ManPrideWarrior Author:Fabio Gatti
“Black pride. Gay pride. White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant pride. All of these things, you know, they're polarized, aren't they? The red and blue states. Christians, that's the most insidious aspect of it, giving into this great Christian image of America. That's the most frightening thing of all. Whereas in the past they're trying to find things that unite us, to minimize the differences. Whereas today there's this belief in empowerment and entitlement by maximizing differences. I'm not so sure that that's healthy.” GivingTryingTodayChristianPastBeliefBlackPrideHealthyGayEmpowermentFrighteningEntitlementGiving In Author:Robert Towne
“There's obviously some appeal in scenes for me - there's something I respond to. I keep doing those films where I put myself out there like that. I guess I look for those kinds of moments and I pride myself on being an actor who will do just about anything for a laugh - so long as it's within context of the scene in the movie and it's not gratuitous. I have to feel it'll make people laugh.” PeopleKindLongMomentsFilmLaughingPrideSceneMaking People Laugh Author:Jason Biggs
“Traditionally the United States has been the natural leader of the world. That's not just pride as an American speaking; it's just the reality. Without the U.S. being involved in Paris Climate Agreement, it's hard for the world community to move forward as effectively.” WorldRealityMovingCommunityNaturalLeaderPrideMoving Forward Author:Al Gore
“Receiving the president of the United States in your restaurant is a big thing. Obama came three times. There's a sense of pride when you're one of few who has had a chance to spend an evening with the president of the United States. Despite if he's Republican or Democrat, we accept them all. Also, I remember days when I had Julia Child coming, with close friends. I had a great relationship with Julia. So those moments are more of affection and admiration than of fancy pride.” ChildrenMomentsRememberPresidentChanceAcceptingPrideRepublicanDemocratAffectionAdmirationClose FriendsJuliaGreat Relationship Author:Daniel Boulud
“Loyal customers, or customers who recommend their friends, give me the most pride. I think that is the biggest compliment I can get. I think in the restaurant business, it takes patience from the customer to spark up a relationship with the restaurateur, but it takes also work from the restaurateur to spark up a relationship with his customer.” ThinkingGivingPrideComplimentLoyal Author:Daniel Boulud
“When employees don't really care about the work they do and they take no pride in being in the specific organization where they work, they bring no enthusiasm, energy or passion to what they're doing. If, in addition, they feel abused, resentful, insignificant, betrayed, or taken advantage of...they want out. Naturally.” CarePassionEnergyTakenPrideEnthusiasmEmployeeBetrayedInsignificantResentful Author:Judith M Bardwick
“L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.” PrideNewness Author:Kim Gordon
“Mid-'80s in New York was fantastic. I remember my first Gay Pride parade in the city. Where I grew up was very sheltered, so when I got to the city, there was this freedom and so much happening. At the same time, there was this pressure of AIDS and everything else. New York is so different today.” DifferentTodayRememberPrideGayAidsFantastic Author:Francisco Costa
“I don't feel pride like that with my own stuff. When I listen to my own music I'm happy with it, but when for example, I hear the beginning of "Last Stand" and I hear Kwabs sing the first line that I helped to write, I just think, wow. I can't believe I was involved in that. I can't even explain what it was like being in that room while we made that. That was really some magic.” ThinkingWritingBelieveMagicPride Author:SOHN
“In high school, I had a teacher there who was really great to me and with whom I finally dared to admit I wanted to be a writer myself, and we did a project where I wrote terrible, 17-year-old fiction. But I remember a couple of the stories. I'd love it if I could read with pride something that I wrote that long ago, but it hasn't happened yet.” LongSchoolRememberTeacherPrideCoupleTerribleHigh SchoolReally Great Author:Jonathan Dee
“I feel a great sense of pride and joy knowing that I played a part in bringing into the world more beauty and excitement.” WorldJoyPrideExcitement Author:Gary Catona
“When I was writing my first novel a friend told me I should apply for a grant from the government that was offered to support starving artists. I can't tell you how much this deeply offended me. I told her in very clear language that I thought it was ridiculous to think that other Americans ought to pay for me to chase my dream. Anybody who understands pride and self-determination gets this. So I bartended at night, I wrote during the day, and I paid for my own damn insurance. I didn't expect anybody else to pick it up for me.” ThinkingWritingDreamArtistNightLanguageSupportNovelPrideRidiculousOffendedStarving Artist Author:Vince Flynn
“My buddies tell me that I should have waited. They say I'm missing a whole world of fun. But I am happy and I sing with pride. I like the Christian life.” WorldChristianFunMissingPrideChristian LifeBuddy Author:Charlie Louvin
“I take pride in my sports knowledge. I take pride in everything I do. It's part of me.” SportsPride Author:Action Bronson
“America the Beautiful, or so you used to be, Land of the Pilgrims' pride, I'm glad they're not here to see, Babies piled in dumpsters, abortion on demand, Oh, sweet land of liberty, your house is on the sand.” BeautifulHouseLibertySweetPrideBabyGladAbortionSand Author:Roy Moore
“We in Illumination Entertainment tend not to put ideas through a brand funnel. We've collected a group of people who share a certain taste, and that is connected to our aspirations for our brand. We pride ourselves on making character-centric movies. If I had to say what's the most important thing this company does, it's creating characters that stay with the audience long after they leave the theater.” PeopleLongImportantCharacterAudienceSharePrideAspiration Author:Christopher Meledandri
“We, the Greens, should thank our former foreign minister Joschka Fischer for bringing something hideous and shameful to light - that Nazi ideas were fully adopted by white-collar workers in the Foreign Ministry. Joschka Fischer stood up to criticism that he would foul his own nest, and with his order to start the historical commission he made it clear that the ministry's pride in itself, as a haven of resistance to Hitler, was no longer acceptable.” PrideCriticismHistoricalNaziAdoptedShameful Author:Claudia Roth
“When you can inspire other people to do something they couldn't do before, that's a very satisfying feeling. Sometimes I meet people and they're over the top excited to tell me how much they love Razor. There is no shortage of synthesizers out there, every week there's a new synthesizer, especially plugins - there is a lot of competition - so if you make somebody really excited about synthesizer it really feels good, so it's a source of a lot of pride and satisfaction.” PeopleSometimesFeelingsWeekInspirePrideCompetitionExcitedFeel Good Author:Erik Wiegand
“Margaret Thatcher inherited the sick man of Europe in 1979 and transformed it into a powerhouse. When she left office, it was Britain redefined. And of course the frosting on the cake was her action in the Falklands, where she gave Britain back some of its pizzazz, addressed some past yearning and great memories. So she gave them back their pride. That was the first great thing she did.” MenActionPastMemoriesPrideOfficeSickGreat ThingsYearningGreat Memories Author:Brian Mulroney
“A large part of parenting is about managing weariness and motivation. Much of the success of parenting is about avoiding the sins of "omission" as well as "commission." You can feed, clothe, and house your kids and not really parent them. When we raise kids for selfish reasons (to feel proud, to have people love us and appreciate us), if they disappoint us we'll pull back. But when we realize that God has called us to raise godly children and God is always worthy to be obeyed, we have a motivation that goes beyond our own pride and our own comfort.” PeopleChildrenReasonKidsMotivationHouseParentRealizingSinPrideProudComfortAppreciateWorthySelfishAvoidingGodlyDisappointWeariness Author:Gary L. Thomas
“We are seeing now that without the contribution of the Social Democrats, Germany cannot be governed. We are a proud and self-confident party. We should now act based on that pride, and not out of fear.” PartyPrideProudDemocrat Author:Martin Schulz
“I was 16 years old, attending boarding school, and I loved Pride and Prejudice. From the opening pages, I loved it. And I will say in my class, not one but two boys told me that I reminded them of Lizzy Bennet. I didn't realize it at the time but this was the nicest thing that any male would ever say to me. This was as good as it got.” SchoolRealizingBoysPridePrejudice Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“It's different to read a book for pleasure than to read it analytically. In the past, I'd read Pride and Prejudice for pleasure. This time, I was really looking at the structure, the order of events, how the characters interact with each other and how the book is paced.” BookDifferentCharacterPastPleasurePridePrejudice Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great. The plotting is great. The pacing is great. The language is great.” CharacterLanguageNovelPridePrejudiceDialogueCharacter Development Author:Curtis Sittenfeld