Prided Quotes

#1. While like most men, Sam prided himself on being equipped with a supernatural internal compass that kept him from ever being lost, he'd also learned to concede those rare times when that compass seemed to be temporary disrepair.

Clive Cussler

#2. Galen went so far as to assert that no one could be a good doctor unless they were also a philosopher, and he prided himself, with justification, on his own philosophical ability.

Brad Inwood

#3. It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.

James Young

#4. It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.

Pearl S. Buck

#5. He'd always prided himself on being more civilized than his brothers, but so much for that; he was becoming aroused in a damned sewer.

Larissa Ione

#6. Laguna prided itself on being an artist's colony that accepted all classes and cultures, not merely tolerating eccentrics but delighting in them.

Dean Koontz

#7. But Josef, like many boys of nineteen, was under the misapprehension that his heart had been broken a number of times, and he prided himself on the imagined toughness of that organ.

Michael Chabon

#8. I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

Kerry Washington

#9. All his life Tyrion had prided himself on his cunning, the only gift the gods had seen fit to give him, and yet this seven-times-damned she-wolf Catelyn Stark had outwitted him at every turn. The

George R R Martin

#10. If nothing else, Prophet prided himself on his ability to be irrational. Everyone was always raving about how being cool, calm, and collected was the best way to be. Prophet found the exact opposite worked most of the time. Tommy

S.E. Jakes

#11. I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

Jane Smiley

#12. All these years Litvinoff had imagined he was so much like his friend. He'd prided himself on what he considered their similarities. But the truth was that he was no more like the man fighting a fever in bed ten feet away than he was like the cat that had just slunk off: they were different species.

Nicole Krauss

#13. I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at that area of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.

Lorraine Toussaint

#14. I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.

Jane Smiley

#15. Flaubert prided himself on his frankness; it was indeed brutal.

W. Somerset Maugham

#16. I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.

Robbie Robertson

#17. I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.

Libba Bray

#18. I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

Jeremy Bonderman

#19. The Night Times has prided itself throughout its long history in telling the truth, the whole truth, and as much gossip as it could get away with.

Simon R. Green

#20. If you spot anything, or you think of anything I haven't, tell me, won't you?" This was rather thrilling: Robin prided herself on her observational powers; they were one reason she had secretly cherished the childhood ambition that the large man beside her was living.

Robert Galbraith

#21. It's the one thing that the Devils have always prided themselves on. That comes from recruiting. We try and pick out the players who not only have the on-ice skills, but the off-ice skills too. I think in any job, if you have good people and you work together, you work better.

Gerad Adams

#22. He had lost his faith in the invisible, and now prided himself, as such unfortunates invariably do, in the wisdom which rejected much that even his eye could see, and trusted confidently in nothing but what his hand could touch. This is the calamity of men whose spiritual part dies out of them ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#23. New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

Gertrude Atherton

#24. Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family
the monkey.

Leo Tolstoy

#25. I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

Salman Rushdie

#26. There are very few comics that understand about exciting the crowd, and that's what I always prided myself on: giving a more confident macho attitude towards delivering material.

Andrew Dice Clay

#27. I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

Dustin Diamond

#28. I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

Tom Lehrer

#29. Humility is something I've always prided myself on.

Bernie Kosar

#30. My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something called 'Everything Stew,' where she would take everything in the refrigerator, all the leftovers, and put them all together.

Ruth Reichl

#31. He prided himself on being a man without prejudice, and this itself is a very great prejudice.

Anatole France

#32. Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.

Orson Scott Card

#33. His growing lack of concern for the others hardly surprised him, whereas previously he had prided himself on being considerate.

Franz Kafka

#34. Dylan prided himself in the gift of reading women's minds. They were such fickle little creatures, as apt to change their minds as their thongs.

Cat Byrd

#35. I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

Ichiro Suzuki

#36. I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.

Patrick Kane

#37. The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the kind of textured decision-making that Ronald Reagan prided himself on.

Eugene Jarecki

#38. Kansas has always considered itself a "rock band" - some people might say "symphonic rock band," others might say a "classical rock band," but we've kind've prided ourselves on being a rock band. Kansas rocks.

Phil Ehart

#39. I always thought Christians were the weak people. When you can't make it in life then you have to ask God. I really prided myself on being a self-made man.

Paul Henderson

#40. For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#41. When the enemy gets to your citadel, your prided epicenter, everything's in play.

Bill Maher

#42. It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making a living in the theater.

Charles Kimbrough

#43. I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

Lucille Ball

#44. I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work.

Wilt Chamberlain

#45. I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

Ezra Koenig

#46. I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong.

Mark Leibovich

#47. Getting shocked was a badge of honor for Woz. He prided himself on being a hardware engineer, which meant

Walter Isaacson

#48. They always prided themselves on looking youthful. "Forty's the new thirty," they'd joke.
Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty's the new one hundred.

Melina Marchetta