Elizabeth Carter Quotes

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

Elizabeth Carter

• Pride
• Improvement
• Human Society

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• Think and grow rich.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Grow

• God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • God
  • Black
  • Mistake

• I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Breakfast

• I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.

  

  Halsey
  • Guys
  • Girls
  • Sanity

• English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Space
  • Football
  • English

• When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • God
  • Sacrifice
  • Saints

• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Country
  • Vote
  • Voting

• I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Opportunity
  • Day

• We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Mercy

• À vous il faut la vie naturelle, à moi la vie factice.

  

  Edgar Degas

• This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Today

• I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • She

• 'When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • Fighting
  • Drinking

• Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Money
  • Why
  • Pain

• Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Life
  • Adversity

• And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • World
  • Work

• As an Elizabeth native, I believe it is my duty to give back to my community. Our youth is our future, and it truly takes a village to raise a child.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Community

• My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Energy
  • Thoughts
  • Sailing

• I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Pride
  • Got
  • Over

• The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Up
  • Improvement
  • Expectation

• An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Pride
  • Revenge

• Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

  

  Elizabeth Carter
  • Pride
  • Improvement
  • Human Society