Best 82 quotes in «honorable quotes» category

When I was a kid, Granpa Portman's fantastic stories meant it was possible to live a magical life. Even after I stopped believing them, there was still something magical about my grandfather. To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and to have your life made unrecognised by it, to come out of all that the honorable and good and brave person I knew him to be - THAT was magical.

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

Malcolm's X objective was actually to reingratiate himself within the Nation of Islam, that because he had emerged by the early 1960s as a very prominent figure outside of the N.O.I., there were critics within the organization that were saying to the patriarch of the N.O.I., the Honorable Elijah Mohammad, that Malcolm planned to take over the organization, which was not true.

plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us to eat fish during the month of Ramadan. He is breaking us away from meats. That was a wonderful way to do it and use the month of Ramadan for fish. I did that too during one of my Ramadan's. We would just eat fish.Breaking away from land animals is a right thing to do.

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can.

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.

We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

A life of honor offers abundant rewards; a life of dishonor comes at a very steep price.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.