Honor Quotes - Page 29

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.

Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.

Through our thanks, we honor all possibilities and bring the ones we choose into this world.

Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he tells us why we didn't honor the Geneva accords and hold elections in Vietnam: because some 80 percent of the country would have voted for Ho Chi Minh. This is very candid. The sort of thing one might have found in Stalin'smemoirs, had he not made ghosts even of ghosts.

The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me!

Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he wishes you to represent a poor man, do so heartily; if a cripple, or a magistrate, or a private man, in each case act your part with honor.

And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.

Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse than that. Honor wasn't insane - she simply didn't care. She'd lost not only her sense of balance but any desire to regain it.

Within the sound of my voice are individuals who have received the ordinances of the temple and for various reasons have not returned to the house of the Lord in quite some time. Please repent, prepare, and do whatever needs to be done so you can again worship in the temple and more fully remember and honor your sacred covenants.

A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.

Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

You can't have real and authentic friendships unless you honor your feelings.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration