Quotes and Sayings About Honor
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These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell...
-- Alice Sebold -
I want a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism. Notice how this word has "man" right in the middle of it? That's one reason I like it. He is right there, front and center. But he is surrounded. I want to vote and work for a way of life that honors the feminine.
-- Alice Walker -
It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.
-- Alison Croggon -
At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
-- Allen Tate -
Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.
-- Ally Carter -
There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.
-- Amanda Palmer -
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."
-- Ambrose Bierce -
True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.
-- Andrew Fastow -
I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.
-- Andrew Stanton -
I'm not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing what I'm doing but in a way that I can also honor what I want to do for myself.
-- Andy Stern -
I still believe in the old fashioned ways of showing a woman Respect and Honor!!
-- Angela Merkel -
I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly.
-- Ann Coulter -
Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
-- Ann Voskamp -
Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]
-- Anne Bishop -
Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?
-- Anne Bronte -
To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths.
-- Anodea Judith -
The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
-- Antonio Villaraigosa -
He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.
-- Aristotle -
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
-- Aristotle -
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
-- Aristotle -
One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.
-- Aristotle -
If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world
-- Asahel Nettleton
