I have a screened in porch, and it’s nice to curl up with a book outside when it’s raining, especially an old battered classic like ‘Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.’ – Amanda Hocking
I pride myself in being able to survive just about any situation on stage now. I can handle pressure. – Billy Crystal
These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back. – Anne Lamott
So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it. – Chris Hadfield
I’m accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults. – Bryan Burrough
Well, I am producing a show that’s going to be on NBC this fall. It’s called ‘School Pride,’ and it’s a reality show where we’re going around the country and renovating schools. It’s really great. – Cheryl Hines
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us – when we succeed, it betrays us. – Charles Caleb Colton
Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don’t see alternatives. Too often, leaders practice defense routines that become self-reinforcing. – Nina Easton
Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn’t do anything else well, but I could do words. – Cynthia Voigt
I take pride in everything I do. I don’t want to be handed anything. I want to earn it. – Evelyn Ashford
I have my pride. I’m a director. I’m not going to go and recreate some other director’s vision. – Fede Alvarez
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have an ability to work collegially across a wide range of interests in the caucus and in the Congress, and an ability to work on a bipartisan basis. Appropriators pride themselves on that. – Marcy Kaptur
In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone. – Edgar Ramirez
I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first. – Daddy Yankee
I take pride in knowing the NFL is pink in October, sparking conversations everywhere about breast cancer and prevention, all in the spirit of my mom. – DeAngelo Williams
If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, ‘Don’t listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!’ – Peter Capaldi
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. – George Santayana
Actually, when I fought in PRIDE, we had the best fighters in the world. Back then, the UFC had a very serious and big crisis; they were going through some tough times trying to get top fighters. All the best fighters were in PRIDE. – Fedor Emelianenko
All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a ‘rate of production,’ for whom it’s a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year. – Graham Swift
I don’t get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing – that around the world everybody’s after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day. – Paul Thomas Anderson
Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity – enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. – Ezra Taft Benson