It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
~By Robert Redford ~
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.
~By Kristi Noem ~
There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.
~By Francis I ~
There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.
~By William Bolcom ~
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
~By Manfred von Richthofen ~
Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.
~By Cole Younger ~
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
~By Zhuangzi ~
While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time.
~By Ethel Merman ~
We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
~By Willard Libby ~
You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
~By George Crook ~
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
~By James Lane Allen ~
I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.
~By Dennis Eckersley ~
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
~By Eugene McCarthy ~
Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
~By Ray Charles ~
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
~By George W. Bush ~
But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.
~By Hugh Shelton ~
In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.
~By A. E. van Vogt ~
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
~By George W. Bush ~
In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.
~By John Sergeant Wise ~
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
You have to defend your honor. And your family.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
The law often allows what honor forbids.
~By Bernard Joseph Saurin ~
It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that.
~By Blair Underwood ~
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.
~By William Cobbett ~
For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
~By James T. Walsh ~
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.
~By Leon Askin ~
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
~By Laura Schlessinger ~
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
~By Bruce Jay Friedman ~
While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.
~By Ed Pastor ~
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.
~By Peter Agre ~
I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
~By Hailee Steinfeld ~
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that's fun.
~By Claudio Reyna ~
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
~By Abraham Pais ~
Those of us who participate realize the incredible honor bestowed on us, but to really understand the true scope and depth of the movement requires more investigation and concentration.
~By Bill Toomey ~
Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.
~By Joe Moore ~
I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more.
~By Richard Lovelace ~
Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.
~By Akhenaton ~
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
~By Anita Roddick ~
In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.
~By Meg Greenfield ~
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
~By John Greenleaf Whittier ~
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
~By Pindar ~
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
~By Jeff Miller ~
I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.
~By Adam Arkin ~
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
I consider it probably one of the biggest honors to be in the Academy. There are only like 1300 actors in it, and as far as I know, you're a member for life. To this day, I'm wondering how lucky I was.
~By William Sanderson ~
Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
~By Cardinal Richelieu ~
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
~By Walter Scott ~
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.
~By George Carey ~
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
~By Ovid ~
I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.
~By Tony Curtis ~
First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.
~By Dan Fouts ~
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
~By Aristotle ~
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.
~By Billy Joel ~
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
~By Studs Terkel ~
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
~By Harriet Martineau ~
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
~By Lao Tzu ~
The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
~By John Ruskin ~
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
~By Maya Angelou ~
Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
~By John Paul Jones ~
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
~By Sallust ~
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
~By Thomas More ~
You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
~By Robert Orben ~
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
~By Leon Askin ~
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
~By Aeschylus ~
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Honor is the reward of virtue.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
~By John Woo ~
Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
~By Citium Zeno ~
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