Contemptuous Pride Quotes

#1. What makes life in Indian organizations difficult is the widespread prevalence of this very contemptuous pride. It stops us from listening to our juniors,

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#2. [the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service, ... and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering ... service.

Ron Paul

#3. That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'

David O. Russell

#4. I've seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down. And I just don't want that in my life.

Adele

#5. What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity.

Zelda Popkin

#6. Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

Michele Bachmann

#7. Love, as is told by the seers of old,
Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold,
Flutters and flies in sunlit skies,
Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#8. I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.

Raimond Gaita

#9. Lords of blue and Lords of gold,
Lords of wind and waters wild,
Lords of time that's growing old,
When will come the season mild?
When will come blue Madoc's child?

Madeleine L'Engle

#10. You didn't do anything. But I won't let anyone talk to you like that.. I don't care who they are."
"You ready to fight the whole town then, darlin'?"
She pursed her lips and said without even a bit of hesitation, "If I have to.

Shelly Laurenston

#11. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

Mark Steyn

#12. I'm totally not a blogger. Sometimes I don't even check my email. I know I should.

Grace Park

#13. I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

Garret Dillahunt

#14. The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

George Washington

#15. They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

Louis Farrakhan

#16. Unless the Bible is first taught to our own hearts, then we have no basis from which to teach it to others at all.

Alistair Begg