#boast

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#boast #concern #country #future #growth

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience. ↗

— Mike Royko

#conscience #elevate #hollywood #likes #national

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. ↗

— Sallust

#brave #coward #defeat #even #his

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#brag #descent #others #owe #their

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#acquaintances #boast #complain #kinds #need

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#bad #bad luck #boasting #conviction #deepest

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#boast #defeat #hate #imperialism #imperialists

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

#aspects #boasting #complacency #confidence #expression

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is. ↗

— Criss Jami

#actions-over-words #boasting #bragging #cheap #cheapness

Taggle, meanwhile, made himself popular, killing rats and bringing a rabbit into camp every evening, preening in the praise - silently, thank god, though at night, he recounted choice bits to Kate: "Rye Baro says I am a princeling; he split the leg bone for me so that I could eat the marrow. They love me. And I'm sure they'll keep you, too." Mira, she thought, and treasured it each time she heard it, They must keep me. Family. ↗

— Erin Bow

#belonging #boasting #hope #longing #talking-animals