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

• Anyone can wrestle until they are tired.

  

  Cael Sanderson
  • Tired

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

  

  Marie Curie
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 would consolidate and eliminate dozens of ineffective or duplicative programs, enhance the role of job creators in workforce development decisions, and improve accountability over the use of taxpayer dollars.

  

  John Kline
  • Job
  • Improvement
  • Accountability

• Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

  

  John Zimmerman
  • Family
  • Pride

• 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