#ride

Pride is the mother of arrogance. ↗

— Toba Beta

#pride #arrogance

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope. ↗

— Sophocles

#evil #pride #recklessness #ruin #tyranny

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#pride #vanity #vanity

I feel like I'm going to HURL. Which, even if I wanted to do, I couldn't do, because I haven't eaten. I can't even drag myself out of my room. And while I'd be able to muster the strength to roundhouse Fang until he begged for MERCY, I'de be mush around an Eraser. ↗

— James Patterson

#sad #the-other-epilogue #mercy

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#along-for-the-ride #adam

It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bigotry #convenience #convictions #evangelists #hypocrisy

...if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. ↗

— William Goldman

#romance #the-princess-bride #william-goldman #love

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#empathy #pride #selfishness #empathy

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#pride #sin #smugness #catholicism

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#love #pride #love