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  • Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

    Men   Honor   Littles  
    Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”
  • You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

  • Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

    Honor   Ordinary  
  • To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn't win enough games.

    Winning   Games   Honor  
  • I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

  • I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

    Lying   Years   Honor  
    The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)
  • It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

    Independent   Honor   Doe  
    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks
  • I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.

    Children   Men   Honor  
  • We honor the heritage of all who come here, no matter where they come from, because we trust in our country's genius for making us all Americans - one nation under God.

    Country   Honor   Genius  
    Address to the Nation on Immigration Reform, delivered 15 May 2006
  • Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

    Hero   Honor   Enough  
    Anne Bronte (2017). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.100, Litres
  • I'm really trying to just keep this internal, and be faithful to the story and the characters, and keep 99.9% of my brain there, serving the story. It's a great network. It's the golden network of cable, so it's totally an honor to be there and tell this story, but I try not to think about anything beyond that.

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  • We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.

  • The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

  • My father, Ronald Reagan, held the presidency in such honor and reverence that he was never in the Oval Office without a coat and tie. Bill Clinton has such disrespect for the presidency that he was often in the Oval Office without his pants. Behold the leader of 'the most ethical administration in history'.

    Father   Ties   Office  
  • Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I wasn't authentic. But I don't understand and I don't believe or subscribe to this idea that I don't have a right to speak as a Muslim because I'm an American. Being Muslim is to accept and honor the diversity that we have in this world, culturally and physically, because that's what Islam teaches, that we are people of many tribes. I think the American Muslim experience is of a different tribe than the Saudi Muslim world, but that doesn't make us less than anyone else.

    "Mohammed was a Feminist". Interview With April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.
  • Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor can anything restrain or regulate the love of money but a sense of honor and virtue, which, if it be not nearly equal at all times, will naturally abound most in ages of knowledge and refinement.

    Men   Honor   Age  
    David Hume (1809). “Essays and treatises on several subjects in two volumes: Essays, moral, political, and literacy”, p.293
  • Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

    Starhawk, M. Macha NightMare (2013). “The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: T/K”, p.8, Harper Collins
  • If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

  • Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

    Honor   Battle   May  
    Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.239, Macmillan
  • It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.

    Sex   Men   Talking  
  • Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

    Prayer   Angel   Evil  
  • Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

    Real   People   Honor  
  • Cycling is a sport of amazing athletes. Its been a privilege and a honor for me to be in this sport and to have a chance to race at the highest level.

  • How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.

    Daughter   Mother   Pain  
  • Consider how august a privilege it is, when angels are present, and archangels throng around, when cherubim and seraphim encircle with their blaze the throne, that a mortal may approach with unrestrained confidence, and converse with heaven's dread Sovereign! O, what honor was ever conferred like this?

    Prayer   Angel   August  
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 459, 1895.
  • In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I won the Prize, Gweneth and I received an invitation from the Brazilian government to be the guests of honor at the Carnaval celebrations in Rio.

    Fun   Pain   Government  
  • Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

    College   Honor   Problem  
  • But I understand now what Tori said about her tattoo representing a fear she overcame-a reminder of where she was, as well as a reminder of who she is now. Maybe there is a way to honor my old life as I embrace my new one. "yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

    Tattoo   Heart   Bird  
    Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.51, Harper Collins
  • Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

    Respect   Flower   Mean  
  • The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

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