All Quotes

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
‐‐ Baruch Spinoza

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
‐‐ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
‐‐ Thomas Merton

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

Pride the first peer and president of hell.
‐‐ Daniel Defoe

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride will spit in pride's face.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
‐‐ Adam Clarke

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.
‐‐ Andrew Greeley

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.
‐‐ Arthur Middleton

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.
‐‐ Arthur Middleton

Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ, both anciently and today, is His authority. There can be no true Church without divine authority.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Priesthood quorums teach and assist their members to attain good health, financial stability, and a year's supply of food and clothing. They also teach their members to be self-reliant and to give their time, talents, and means in behalf of the Church, community, and needy.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.
‐‐ Tony Cardenas

Priests and pastors are probably the most stereotyped characters in film and television, and the reason why, I think, is that most people don't know one. Most writers who work in Hollywood don't know any.
‐‐ Scott Derrickson

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.
‐‐ Rocco Buttiglione

Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.
‐‐ Maria Monk

Prim and proper white women, I like what I see.
‐‐ Guy Madison

'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.
‐‐ Heather Wilson

Primaries are the place where you see whose message is connecting with the largest number of people.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
‐‐ Nat King Cole

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.
‐‐ Jonathan Shapiro

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.
‐‐ Lamar Alexander

Primary care must never be seen simply as a set of organisational structures.
‐‐ John Hutton

Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.
‐‐ Zhang Zhidong

Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.
‐‐ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
‐‐ Richard Leakey

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
‐‐ Keith Henson

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic mistake' that is making the world 'a more dangerous place.' His partners in Washington vigorously echo that view.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.
‐‐ Herman Cain

Prime Minister Cameron says he wants to be the greenest government ever, but the definition of green is immature... I don't deny for a moment that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but there are so many other factors that affect climate. It is more complicated than the computer models that we are using. What the truth is, nobody knows.
‐‐ Nigel Lawson

Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.
‐‐ Daniel Hannan

Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the destruction of an Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad in 1981. This action delayed an Iraqi bomb by at least 15 years. The whole world condemned Israel - only to realize later how farsighted it had been.
‐‐ Ehud Barak

Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.
‐‐ Joe Biden

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
‐‐ Abdullah II of Jordan