Honor Quotes - Page 57

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

Method Man, for him to offer me the spot as the first Jewish member of the Wu Tang Clan, you know, was an honor.

I believe I am an honorable man.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.

Water is a miracle - it takes so many forms - is the core of life - is holy. So it becomes important to pay utmost attention to the holiness which is this planet's life - blood, which we are destroying. I always look for it in a poem. I honor it. I pay it mind.

It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

[John McCain] stopped connecting and just looked at my chest and decided, "I'm just gonna continue to talk about honor and duty and the families should be proud," all the things that are cudgels emotionally to keep us from the conversation. But, things that weren't relevant to what we were talking about.

Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more.

I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.

Being [in] a show that you get to say good-bye instead of being asked to leave is a real honor.

When I accept an apology it means that the part in me that honors our relationship honors the part in you that honors our relationship.

Denzel Washington was so great at The Great Debaters, so focused and talented. That was just an honor to be cast in that, for the most part. I was fat, and I guess the casting director sold him on me. He actually said to me during the scene, "You know, I've always found that less is more," which is an expression that you've heard a million times, but it was a nice way of telling me I was overdoing it.

And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.

I can honestly say that being a United States senator has been the honor of my life.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

Compromise is an honorable word.

We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside.... If I had the authority to set it aside, this would be a dangerous government, and I wouldn't respect it.

Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the latter, and consequently has not equal pretensions to support a frame of government productive of human happiness.

Defeat held no honor.

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.