"Pride is a fool's fortress"

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Source : Leon Uris (1980). “Topaz”

Leon Uris

#Pride Quotes #Fool Quotes #Fortresses Quotes

“I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.”
“When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds.”
“The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.”
“And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.”
“I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication.”
“When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.”
“I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?”

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