No place in the world prides itself more on its vigilance and realism, no place considers itself more qualified to censure any flourish of rhetoric or extravagance of aspiration.
Quotes about prides (16 Quotes)
Pride will spit in pride's face.
Voters would find it a strained argument to believe that the senator who prides herself on intelligence and knowledge of detail can't recall any details in this case. It just strains credulity.
The United States is a country that prides itself on building gadgets. We have great engineers and a few things we excel at and one of those is gadgets. And gadgets imply that you have an engineer who goes out and knows what he wants the machine he's going to build to do, and he goes out and designs it and builds it.
She prides herself as being seen by her peers as a scholar. Her teachers describe Daphne as a hard worker who is bright and has a great attitude.
As Portland's team, the Timbers organization prides itself on its extensive community involvement, ... Brian Winters has been there front-and-center leading those efforts for five years, so this honor is well-deserved.
We're going to see how tough we are. We have to go into tough arenas, on the road, against a team that prides itself on being tough Boston College.
What can be said in New Year rhymes,That's not been said a thousand timesThe new years come, the old years go,We know we dream, we dream we know.We rise up laughing with the light,We lie down weeping with the night.We hug the world until it stings,We curse it then and sigh for wings.We live, we love, we woo, we wed,We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.
prides herself not only on her acting ability and other talents, but also on her natural physical appearance.
He's a very intense guy, ... But he's very professional, too. You know where you stand with him. He likes to be prepared. If you're not prepared, he'll blame himself. And he prides himself on his team doing the little things and having that strong work ethic.
For a country that prides itself on due process and civil liberties, it's just indefensible.
That is far too long, for her, for us and especially for a country that prides itself on exporting its belief in a free press to the rest of the world.
The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 430 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.
The sane person prides himself on his ability to be unaffected by important facts, and interested in unimportant ones. He refers to this as having a sense of perspective, or keeping things in proportion.
He's a smart guy, who hates with a passion being corrected. He has a lot of pride in everything he does and pass protection is one of the things he really, really prides himself on. The other thing he really loves is throwing the ball.
That's something this school prides itself on, the defense. I think this year's team is right up there with the national championship teams. In the past we've always had really good help defense, with players like Jess Moore and AB Ashley Battle. That's something that this team is still learning. But we've been doing so well defensively that we can only get better.