Honorable Quotes - Page 16

• I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it." It was not an honorable thing to do.

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Trying, Remember

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us to eat fish during the month of Ramadan. He is breaking us away from meats. That was a wonderful way to do it and use the month of Ramadan for fish. I did that too during one of my Ramadan's. We would just eat fish.Breaking away from land animals is a right thing to do.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Animal, Wonderful, Muhammad

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• As the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, 'justice lays down with you when you lay down, justice gets up with you when you get up.' The requirement of this universally applicable law is that you must do unto others as you would have done unto yourself. When you wake up, you wake up to that law that whatever you put out is going to come back.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Justice, Wake Up, Done

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The greatest gift of God to us today is right guidance. The enemy has money that he can throw at problems but the problems never get solved because we're violating the good guidance and warning that God sent to us through the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Enemy, Today, Problem

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

  Mortimer Adler

  Men, Three, Way

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• It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

  Emilie Autumn

  Depression, Suicide, Inevitable Death

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• The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

  Wendell Berry

  Ideas, Kind, Good Work

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• The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

  Steven Brust

  Struggle, Mean, Defeat

  Steven Brust (2009). “Five Hundred Years After”, p.525, Macmillan

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• Whites have always put one against another and now they have a dead man who was nothin' but a, he admitted it himself, Malcolm X, was a tramp or had white women sellin' their body for him, he was nothin' until the Honorable Elijah Mohammed made him great, made him great, taught him, even his name X come from Elijah.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Names, White

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own problems, there won't be any explosion, and the Negroes who want to stay with the white man, let them stay with the white man - but those who want to leave, let them go to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Land

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

  Paul McCartney

  Jesus, Perfect, Effort

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• For the most part, cops are decent and honorable, but that's how I know that there are bad cops, cops that you think you know so well.

  Nancy Grace

  Thinking, Cop, Decent

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Now, I will say, most American companies - most are run by honorable patriotic people who care about their employees and communities. But there are still too many powerful interests fighting to protect their own profits and privileges at the expense of everyone else.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Powerful, Patriotic

  Source: time.com

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• I have an honorable discharge from the United States Navy. Hillary Clinton don't have one. Bill Clinton don't have one. Trump don't have one. Obama don't have one.

  Jesse Ventura

  Navy, United States, Bills

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that have, at their core, the notion that equality is something the privileged group "gives" to those not so privileged - a reaching down, as it were.

  George Saunders

  Giving, Political, Might

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• The old and honorable American notion, that a person who works hard should be able to live in freedom and security, with dignity - seems to have taken on a secondary status.

  George Saunders

  Taken, Hard Work, Able

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• What I like to believe, and what I do firmly hold to, is that in us all we do have the ability to remain honorable, no matter what has been done to us. No matter what horrors we've witnessed.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Done, Matter

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Frustration, Long, Anxiety

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Kings, Pennsylvania, Agents

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• I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

  Henry James

  Thinking, Judging, Judgement

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• While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Real, Eye, Men

  Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

  Ice Cube

  Running, Believe, Long

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Cale is my signature character in the Forgotten Realms. The most popular character I've written. He's a thief, an assassin, and eventually, a priest who stabs his own god in the chest. Always trying to slip his past, but never succeeding. Dark dude. Brooding dude. Born killer. But honorable, still.

  Paul S. Kemp

  Character, Dark, Past

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Malcolm's X objective was actually to reingratiate himself within the Nation of Islam, that because he had emerged by the early 1960s as a very prominent figure outside of the N.O.I., there were critics within the organization that were saying to the patriarch of the N.O.I., the Honorable Elijah Mohammad, that Malcolm planned to take over the organization, which was not true.

  Manning Marable

  Organization, Islam, Figures

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Organization

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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