#boast

They call me, The Sharkalator ↗

— James Patterson

#funny #gazzy #maximum-ride #name-calling #nicknames

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#boast #how #kept #many #much

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#boast #cry #despair #except #hope

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. ↗

— Xun Zi

#animal #believe #boasts #conducts #deception

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#about #boast #bring #comes #customers

I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#any #boast #country #i #like

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.' ↗

— Eminem

#been #better #boasting #hip #hip hop

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? ↗

— James Thomson

#boast #creation #gay #hers #hues

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ↗

— Bern Williams

#boast #could #invented #june #night

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#already #beat #boast #cannot #come