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

• 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

• 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

• When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• All my stuff is men's fashion. It's always oversized shirts, boyfriend blazers and trousers.

  

  Bella Heathcote
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Boyfriend

• The reason you can take the leap of faith with Stephen King, when it comes to the paranormal, or the things that happen in the world that he creates, is because the characters that he writes are accessible.

  

  Emily Rose
  • World
  • Faith
  • King

• 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

• A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Influence
  • Belief
  • Fundamentals

• Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Wonder

• Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

  

  William Feather
  • Improvement
  • Enthusiasm
  • Hot

• Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

  

  Jules Verne
  • American
  • Man
  • 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