Honor Quotes - Page 12

• I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Believe, Constitution, Should

  "Sonia Sotomayor: 10 Things You Should Know". 1997 Senate Confirmation Hearing, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2009.

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• Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Two, Target, Abdominals

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• Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Mean, Cutting, Missing

  Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.163, Chronicle Books

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• Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

  Laurence Sterne

  Gold, Titles, Add

  "The Works of Laurence Sterne".

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• There was a very slight chance she might actually kill him that way, and if she did, she’d be brought up on charges. Unless, of course, she could prove harmful intent. She could see it now. See, Your Honor, he was going to f*ck me silly, make me like it.

  Nalini Singh

  Silly, Might, Way

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.78, Penguin

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• Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor?

  Brandon Mull

  Sacrifice, Advice, Doubt

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• Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

  Barbra Streisand

  Father, School, Members

  "Oprah Talks to Barbra Streisand". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October, 2006.

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• This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Men, Ideas

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• When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

  C. S. Lewis

  Farewell, Adventure, Men

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• Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.

  Albert Camus

  Strong, Men, Weakness

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• Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

  Lionel Trilling

  Culture, Blame, Virtue

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.245, New York Review of Books

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• When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

  Harry S. Truman

  Gun, Hype, President

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• I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Forever, Treasure

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Space, People

  "How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They’re Going Through: Lie or Leave" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2010.

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• What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun?

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Fun, Community, Doe

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• You have to defend your honor. And your family.

  Suzanne Vega

  Family, Vocabulary Words, Your Honor

  Suzanne Vega (1999). “The passionate eye: the collected writing of Suzanne Vega”, Avon Books

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• I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Book, Teaching

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• I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Views, Paris, Wish

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• Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self, People, Fear Of Failure

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.51, Prestwick House Inc

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• We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think, is a different thing entirely, difficult for anyone but the historians and the gods to judge.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Men, Thinking, Judging

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life ... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.

  J. C. Watts

  Journey, Wonderful, Congress

  "Rep. J.C. Watts to Retire". www.foxnews.com. July 2, 2002.

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• We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Mother, Hurt, Children

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• For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest love. How easy, how fulfilling would it be to take Marduk's life? But the arrow in Ethan's fingers slips to the ground. "No. even revenge is too great an honor for you." As the night falls and brings an end to this long day of darkness, Marduk inhales his last staggered breath and his body turns to stone.

  Marianne Curley

  Revenge, Fall, Night

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• I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.

  Shaun White

  Flags, Done, Proud

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• He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

  Walt Whitman

  Teacher, Style

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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