Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension – only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each passing month as if shoving one more oiled hot dog down the gullet in a food eating contest to prove...

A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them.

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.

{Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll, 1894}I do so wish, that, in all these big questions, literary men would take you more for a guide than they do, or seem to do. You have, of course, an immense constituency; but your love of letters and your deeply poetic spirit render you worthy of...

He was a man, take him for all in all,I shall not look upon his like again.

The strongest soldier cannot balance long upon the blade that does divide his honor and his heart, and whatever way he falls, the cut will kill him.

When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in...

I don’t take a second for granted of the honor of representing country music.

Am I living what I believe each and every day? The true measure of any person is living his/her truth. Make sure your measurement is so tall that people have to look up to know who you are.

By the practice of being honorable in small things each day, one eventually becomes honorable in all things every day!!!

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

Respect earned through fear instead of deeds, was not truly respect.

Could I but acquaint the world with Robert G. Ingersoll’s humanity, with his ideas and his sentiments of love, patience and understanding, a renascence would automatically take place that would give life and living on this little earth of ours some semblance of what we call paradise.And this great and wonderful man had to die!I...

There are so many other fun ways to dishonor the family name that buying girls’ underwear shouldn’t be one of them.

The hero acts alone, without encouragement, relying solely on conviction and his own inner resources. Shame does not discourage him; neither does obloquy. Indifferent to approval, reputation, wealth, or love, he cherishes only his personal sense of honor, which he permits no one else to judge.[…] Guided by an inner gyroscope, he pursues his vision...

What you did was not only very kind, but brave and honorable.

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

Never shame your comrades by letting their death get you killed

the ocean mist engulfs me, like a lifetime’s friendship honored.

He was genuinely nice. (The movie) is an honor. It’s something you thought would never happen.

You are my favorite book. I immerse myself in your story and fall in love with each page. I will never be able to truly express to you how much I admire and cherish who you are. Nor will I be able to articulate the level of honor I feel to find myself included amongst...

Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there’s no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.

Damn the wars but bless the soldier.

You can still make today the day you change yourself, love yourself, forgive yourself, respect yourself, honor yourself, cherish yourself, admire yourself, express yourself, be true to yourself… It’s never too late!

There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Hating skin color is contempt for God’s divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.

A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice.

It ain’t life that left you no choice, its honor!

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either....

It was a case of my honor not to use Ukraine’s budget … privatization … official power to solve private problems,

Quiero luchar de verdad, no ser visto como un héroe antes de serlo.

On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their friends, in order to save themselves. We who have come...

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

Je préfère mourir debout que vivre à genoux. (I prefer to die standing than to live on my knees.)

Hopeful,” Ian whispered in her ear. This word caught her off guard. At present, hope was probably all any of them could cling to.

To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.

village.” And to pursue a life of purpose.We affirm our duty to nourish and nurture the young, to honour their caring ideals as the heart of being human. To recognize the early years as the foundation of life, and to cherish the contribution of young children to human evolution.We commit ourselves to peaceful ways and...

Shortly after you left the room, Bushell came over and spoke to your father. I was not near enough to hear what he said, but Maria Lucas told me afterwards that he had been -‘ (she smiled) ‘amazingly impertinent.”Peter actually spoke to Papa?”He did. According to Maria, he had the impudence to criticise Mr Bennet...

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

So I had to come back for you . . . husband.

There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.

Sometimes justice is better served by those who have experienced the pain

Let Us Be GratefulToday we give our thanks most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers – for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As...

What were they thinking?’ we ask about our ancestors, but we know that, a century hence, our descendents will ask the same thing about us. Who knows what will strike them as strangest? The United States incarcerates 1 percent of its population and subjects many thousands of inmates to years of solitary confinement. In Saudi...

It’s important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect–and shame comes when you lose that title–a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

The bullets that hit your bodies and the wounds that are still in your bodies are signs of honor,