#ride

Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive. ↗

— James Patterson

#euphemisms #humor #max #maximum-ride #maxride

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#greatest #ignorance #pride #self

I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#bull #each #i #passion #riders

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#corpse #ever #good #good wishes #jealousy

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#bottom #concept #crashes #gonna #i

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#pride #vice

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#moscow #never #power #pride #russians

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#agreement #amount #complete #desire #different

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. ↗

— James Madison

#hatred #labor #luxury #other #pride

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #pride #religion #religious-leadership #the-sin-of-pride