Dignity Quotes - Page 16

• I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.

  Burt Reynolds

  Regret, Heart, Class

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.

  Horton Foote

  People, World, Faces

  Horton Foote (1989). “Cousins ; And, The Death of Papa: The Final Two Plays of The Orphans' Home Cycle”, p.13, Grove Press

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• Suffering, if you're a Christian, suffering is a part of life. And it's not a bad thing, it is an essential thing in life... There are all different ways to suffer. One way to suffer is through lack of food and shelter and there's another way to suffer which is lack of dignity and hope and there's all sorts of ways that people suffer and it's not just tangible, it's also intangible and we have to consider both.

  Rick Santorum

  Christian, Things In Life, People

  "Rick Santorum calls for low-income children to suffer". Rick Santorum's speech in Ottumwa, Iowa, www.dailykos.com. November 18, 2011.

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• I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.

  Julie Kagawa

  Fate, Sacrifice, Laughing

  Julie Kagawa (2010). “The Iron King”, p.89, Harlequin

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• I said last year, and I still believe there are the votes in the House to pass Death with Dignity legislation.

  Shap Smith

  Believe, Years, House

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• I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.

  Justin Vivian Bond

  World, Littles, Rooms

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• A dog has kindliness in his heart and dignity in his demeanor. The finest qualities anyone can have.

  Kay Francis

  Dog, Heart, Quality

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As long as you are still fighting in defense of your dignity and for your occupied land, all is well.

  George Habash

  Fighting, Land, Long

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• Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

  Bernard Lewis

  Giving, Islam, Democracy

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• I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.

  Josephine Baker

  Attitude, Blow, Humanity

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• We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Fate, Shapes

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Hate, War

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• What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Great Ones

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• Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

  Aristotle

  Intelligent, Talent, Doomed

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• If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Water, Feelings

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 16 (1932)

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• I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work. Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Simple, Often Is

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest - have some kind of dignity or worth that no elephant, pig, or chimpanzee can ever achieve, we see that this question is as difficult to answer as our original request for some relevant fact that justifies the inequality of humans and other animals.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Pigs, Elephants

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• My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

  Rahul Dravid

  Team, Sadness, Pride

  "Rahul Dravid Retires From Cricket 'With Sadness But Also With Pride'". www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.

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• At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is the supreme value can, without a fundamental inconsistency, follow the practice of deliberately putting one of its members to death.

  William J. Brennan

  Country, Practice, Battle

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• The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life who will proclaim, celebrate, and serve the Gospel of life in every situation. A sign of hope is the increasing recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. I renew the appeal I made ... for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary.

  Pope John Paul II

  Taken, Evil, Pro Life

  "A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World".

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• What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Giving, Balance, Looks

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1849). “Vanity fair. With illustr. by the author”, p.77

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• Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

  Hannah More

  May, Crime, Habit

  'Florio' (1786) pt. 1, l. 77

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• We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

  Jane Addams

  Women, Believe, Desire

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.12, Youcanprint

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• If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Men, Rights, Republic

  Howard Mumford Jones (1952). “The Bright Medusa”

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• Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

  Tony Fernandes

  Mean, Rights, Individual

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