Honorable Quotes - Page 20

• There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, Long, Political

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.1394, Penguin

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• One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

  Heath L'Estrange

  Character, Enough

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• Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Atheist, Men

  "L'examen important de Milord Bolingbroke écrit sur la fin de 1736". Book by Voltaire. Conclusion, 1736.

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• We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Comedian, Style

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Victory, Defeat

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• Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

  David Gemmell

  Native American, People, Age

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• I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena

  Julia Child

  Car, Tea, Done

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.76, Anchor

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• It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Engineering, Finals, Steps

  "Falling Free". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1988.

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• Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.

  Cassandra Clare

  Be Kind, Sometimes, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.990, Simon and Schuster

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• We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.19, Editora Dracaena

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• Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Teacher, Teaching, Science

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• A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  "The Wisdom of Jean-Paul Sartre: A Selection".

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• Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.

  David St. John

  Prayer, Ambition, Clothes

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• We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

  Booker T. Washington

  Intelligent, Hands, Ideas

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• I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.

  J. G. Holland

  Office, World, Wealth

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• Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Work, Should

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• Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Careers, Vanity

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon
  valour.

  Livy

  Courage, Wells, Rely

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 14,

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• The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.

  Catharine Beecher

  Selfish, Independent, Opportunity

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1851). “The true remedy for the wrongs of woman: with a history of an enterprise having that for its object”, p.59

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• It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Beautiful, Strong, Mean

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.

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• If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong.

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Divorce, Married, Shut Up

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• If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

  Agesilaus II

  Done, Monument, Statues

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• It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Honesty, Goodness, Results

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• Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Thinking, Numbers, Elements

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Book, Writing, Europe

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