Honorable Quotes - Page 15

• One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Wise, Faithful

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1854). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.165

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• A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.

  L. Tom Perry

  Good Life, Integrity, Character

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• Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your heart, and find it unlovely. You will be certain that (...) you are the greatest of monsters. This is a good thing; although you may forgive yourself, you must never come to think that your actions were in any way justifiable. But- (...) Being a sane, honorable human being is not always comfortable.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Lying, Heart, Night

  Mercedes Lackey (2015). “The Mage Winds”, p.531, Titan Books

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• I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

  Paula McLain

  Hurt, People, Missing

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.245, Ballantine Books

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• The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Solitude, Secret, Age

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.169, Penguin UK

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• My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―

  Raymond E. Feist

  Mother, Uncles, Assassins

  Raymond E. Feist (1990). “Prince of the Blood”, Spectra

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• Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Honorable Man, Whole Life

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• If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.

  Rob Bell

  Beautiful, Claims, Ifs

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.79, Harper Collins

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• Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Titles, United States

  "Secret Service Agent Barred From Flight". abcnews.go.com. January 7, 2006.

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• Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Brother, Brothers And Sisters

  "True Detective: The Long Bright Dark". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer.

  Paul Engle

  New York, Writing, Iowa

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• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Congress And The President, Giving, Free Spirit

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

  Malcolm X

  Law, White, America

  "Lost Malcolm X Speech Heard Again 50 Years Later". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 4, 2012.

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• What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

  Harriet Martineau

  Teacher, Teaching, Responsibility

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.178

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• In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

  Mary McCarthy

  Military, Politics, Retreat

  "Vietnam". Book by Mary McCarthy, 1967.

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• Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Mother, Girlfriend, Wife

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am not the leader; I am a representative of the leader. The leader is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, whom we believe is very much alive, and is directing me from where he is.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Believe, Leader, Alive

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• America's time, unfortunately, for judgment has come. In fact, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us it's not just the judgment of America, but it's a judgment of the world that has been affected by the Shaitan, or "Satan" of America.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Taught Us, America, World

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for justice and mercy for those who needed help, etc. I wouldn't personally endorse everything they said, any more than I would for critics of power and its crimes today. But rather generally I think they played an honorable role - and suffered accordingly.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Thinking, Justice

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

  Noam Chomsky

  Intellectual, Said, Term

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore (another important qualification), it should not be seen as an audience, but as a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively.

  Noam Chomsky

  Community, Important, Matter

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Breakup

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• Many people are quick to say that we are not recognized by Muslims in the East . And I start with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. In 1959, he went throughout the Holy City of Mecca to dine and wine with Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and all of the black, mainly the rulers of the Islamic countries.

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, Islamic, Wine

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to Hollywood to play the bad guys. At some point in American film, I think there was the idea that the British accent had a tone to it that's a little bit naughty.

  Alfred Molina

  Naughty, Thinking, Guy

  "Alfred Molina Talks About Being Ares in Wonder Woman Animated Film". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. December 11, 2008.

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• You never can predict things. I knew the movie Peducted would get a reaction, because it's showing a different vision of our soldiers in Iraq. All we ever get told is that they're valued and we support them, and as they're represented on television, they're true-blue and honorable. Which is true, for the most part.

  Brian De Palma

  Support, Soldier, Vision

  Source: www.avclub.com

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