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Tag Name "Honorable" (300)

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Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief above all be brief.
Calvin Coolidge
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Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.
Christopher Hart
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Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable as, the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur..
Ambrose Bierce
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Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.
Baltasar Gracian
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Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
Akio Morita
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I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.
Bill Vaughan
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The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.
Albert Einstein
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You never can predict things. I knew the movie Peducted would get a reaction, because it's showing a different vision of our soldiers in Iraq. All we ever get told is that they're valued and we support them, and as they're represented on television, they're true-blue and honorable. Which is true, for the most part.
Brian De Palma
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To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?
Aleister Crowley
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I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to Hollywood to play the bad guys. At some point in American film, I think there was the idea that the British accent had a tone to it that's a little bit naughty.
Alfred Molina
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living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.
Alma Kruger
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Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?
Charles Sumner
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MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.
Ambrose Bierce
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What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.
Clarence Jordan
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plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
Ambrose Bierce
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In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.
Confucius
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High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.
Andy Hargreaves
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A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.
Confucius
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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.
Anita Roddick
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... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
Dale Spender
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Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
Ann Patchett
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