Eating Humble Pie Quotes

I don't enjoy eating humble pie.

We're not unique. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.

It is satisfying following such an emphatic victory over the current unbeaten champion (Lucian Bute) to know that there's a lot of people eating humble pie.

[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.

Ultimately it boils down to the same thing all relationships boil down to: eating humble pie. I sometimes eat quite a lot. But, however bitter it might taste, it's the best pie. It's on the menu constantly for both parties.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.