“And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.” TimeWrittenPrideLessonsStonesLaysFingersLondonDustFallenMidstAshesSurveys Author:Anna Letitia Barbauld
“Here is an example to help you understand the efficacy of the Rosary. You remember the story of David who vanquished Goliath. What steps did the young Israelite take to overthrow the giant? He struck him in the middle of the forehead with a pebble from his sling. If we regard the Philistine as representing evil and all its powers: heresy, impurity, pride, we can consider the little stones from the sling capable of overthrowing the enemy as symbolizing the Aves of the Rosary.” IfsLittlesHelpingStoriesRememberYoungEvilStepsEnemyMiddleExamplePrideCapableStonesRegardGiantsHeresyForeheadsRepresentingPebblesEfficacyRosaryImpurityPhilistinesGoliath Author:Columba Marmion
“but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves.” MindEndsMightCertainFallFoundStepsRecordsDyingPrideStonesNotionDustWitnessDryWeedManifestVagueAlienationDegradation Author:Philip K. Dick
“I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night in a storm the sea shouting that accumulates new sins and to the ancient makes recompense. I am exiled from your world of pride polite, by pride defrauded, I am the king without crown. I am the passion without words without stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war, is my same force that make me sick” WorldWarNightPassionForceStarsSinSeaPrideKingsWeaponsStonesSickAncientStormHeatDespiseCrownsPoliteConsumedShoutingFirmamentRecompense Author:Hermann Hesse
“The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.” SoundPrideStonesManagersFreakStableOutcast Author:Mitch Albom
“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.” MenWorldFeelsSeemsResponsibilityBuildingPrideVictoryStonesSightResponsibleShameMiserySettingSettingsBe A ManBeing ResponsibleContributingComrade Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery