Dignity Quotes - Page 38

• "In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Kitchen, France

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• I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Sex, Dirty, Mean

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• We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.

  Samuel Fuller

  People, Scratches, Minutes

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• We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

  Jon Meacham

  Law, Liberty, Who We Are

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• Our goal as a parent is to give life to our children's learning--to instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-discipline--an ordering of the self from the inside, not imposition from the outside. Any technique that does not give life to a child's learning and leave a child's dignity intact cannot be called discipline--it is punishment, no matter what language it is clothed in.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Children, Self, Punishment

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• The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Government, Office, Simplicity

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• The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from a life well lived and from the acceptance of one's own death as a necessary process of nature.... It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Wisdom, Appreciation, Real

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• ...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.

  Darlene Cates

  Sight, People, Acting

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• I think that's deeply rooted in Muslim consciousness, the idea of not submitting to anything other than God. "You can abuse me, but you're not going to win me over. But if you treat me with respect and dignity, I'm going to fall in love with you. I'm going to sing your praises all over the world because you're powerful and you treated me with human dignity."

  Hamza Yusuf

  Falling In Love, Powerful, Love You

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• ... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility.

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Sex, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist, you’re not the puppet of the piano, you’re not the puppet of the muse, but you’re not its master, either. It’s a relationship, it’s a conversation, and all it wants is to be treated with respect and dignity - and it will return ten thousand times over.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, Artist, Destiny

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• No amount of vintage dresses gives you dignity

  Taylor Swift

  Vintage, Giving, Dresses

  Song: Better Than Revenge, Album: Speak Now

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• Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Games, Humour

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• A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.

  Steve Martin

  Self, Advice, Anecdotes

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• There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

  Amit Ray

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• ‎In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.

  Dalai Lama

  People, Humanity, Risk

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• It is impossible for a person to earn separate dignity while his own race is uncivilized.

  Khem Veasna

  Race, Impossible, Persons

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• Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

  Mason Cooley

  Laughter, Alarms, Sound

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• I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

  Mason Cooley

  May, Forget

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• No dignity without distance.

  Mason Cooley

  Distance

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• The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Player, America

  "Baseball's lesson for Washington" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2013.

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• Carles Puyol is a Barcelona legend. He could have been playing every two weeks but he has shown dignity until the end.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Two, Legends, Barcelona

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• Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Important, Maintaining

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• The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Children, Humorous

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, A Defence of Baby-Worship, 1901.

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• If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage.

  William J. Brennan

  Air, Order, Heritage

  "Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence". Book by Brennan Center for Justice, 1997.

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