#pride

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#anybody #because #borrowed #grant #how

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#down #family #idea #interesting #interesting idea

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it. ↗

— Evelyn Ashford

#earn #everything #handed #i #i do

I am excessively diverted. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#child #childish #distorted #forth #gives

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! ↗

— William Blake

#church #cruelty #demonstrations #dividing #exist

The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. ↗

— Ignatius Donnelly

#democratic #democratic party #hope #like #mule

The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form. ↗

— Kate Bosworth

#close #different #enjoy #fact #first

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, that there was another angle in all those years when she was growing old and older and very old, and Grandfather was matching her year for year, a separate line that did not intersect with hers. They were vertical people, they lived by pride, and it is only by the ocular illusion of perspective that they can be said to have met. But he had not been dead two months when she lay down and died too, and that may indicate that at that absolute vanishing point they did intersect. They had intersected for years, for more than he especially would ever admit. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#intersection #life-lines #love #marriage #married-life

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#difficult #important #know #personal #personal satisfaction