Quotes with honor

Quotes 161 till 180 of 181.

  • A. B. Yehoshua We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Lee We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Bob Ney We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Mary Kay Ash We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
    Mary Kay Ash
    American businesswoman (1918 - 2001)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Herbert Hoover When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Alice Miller Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Jean Baptiste Racine Without money honor is merely a disease.
    Jean Baptiste Racine
    French playwright (1639 - 1699)
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  • John Dryden Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bill Goldberg Would it be an honor to be bestowed Hall of Fame credentials? Yeah. Does it define me as a person? No.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • James Allen You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • William Wycherley Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Bryan Fuller If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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