The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?
~By Billy Preston ~
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
~By Eldridge Cleaver ~
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
~By Aristotle ~
I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them.
~By Fred Savage ~
You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.
~By Tyne Daly ~
Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.
~By Otto Schily ~
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 ~
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 feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
~By Edward Everett ~
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
~By Socrates ~
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
~By Julien Benda ~
As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
~By Adam Clarke ~
It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
~By David Duchovny ~
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
~By David Mallet ~
It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.
~By Fulton J. Sheen ~
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
~By Michael McCaul ~
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
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 ~
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
~By Mercedes Lackey ~
What is left when honor is lost?
~By Publilius Syrus ~
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
~By Phil Donahue ~
I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me.
~By Johnny Ramone ~
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.
~By Randall Terry ~
I have actually five honorary degrees.
~By Katherine Dunham ~
I had the honor and privilege of working with John Ritter.
~By Will Friedle ~
All is lost save honor.
~By Francis I ~
Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.
~By Marcel Pagnol ~
The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
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 ~
Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.
~By Matthew Green ~
It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.
~By Dakota Fanning ~
I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
~By Sally Ride ~
I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.
~By Kevin Eubanks ~
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
~By George W. Bush ~
I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.
~By Casey Stengel ~
Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.
~By Richard Neal ~
But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.
~By Dabney Coleman ~
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.
~By Alan Autry ~
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.
~By Melissa Bean ~
When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.
~By Ashley Judd ~
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
~By Karel Capek ~
The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.
~By Leonid Andreyev ~
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.
~By Howard Mumford Jones ~
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 better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
~By Mark Twain ~
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
~By George B. McClellan ~
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 ~
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
~By Aristotle ~
Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
I know who I am and can deal with the use of Indian mascots... But I know it can be demeaning to a group of people. Maybe it would be all right if they were truly honoring the people and are giving due respect to the people they are representing.
~By Leonard Little ~
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
You have to defend your honor. And your family.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
~By Albert Pike ~
From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
~By Jimmy Breslin ~
Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.
~By Ronnie Hawkins ~
Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
~By Mario Andretti ~
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
~By Meryl Streep ~
At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
~By Allen Tate ~
I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.
~By Kristen Bell ~
We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.
~By Ahmed Yassin ~
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
~By George Washington ~
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
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 ~
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.
~By Glenn Beck ~
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
~By Zach Wamp ~
The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
~By John Lennon ~
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
~By Charles Dickens ~
I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.
~By Pete Seeger ~
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
~By Brad Sherman ~
The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.
~By Hank Stram ~
It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.
~By Jim Bakker ~
I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
~By Tupac Shakur ~
One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
~By Mary Antin ~
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 ~
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.
~By Neil Simon ~
I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.
~By Lionel Hampton ~
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 ~
I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.
~By Ishmael Reed ~
National honor is the national property of the highest value.
~By James Monroe ~
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
~By Pat Riley ~
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