Top 1200 Honor Among Thieves Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.

The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.

Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state? How do we address the self-inflicted catastrophes that devastated our natural environment? So large is our malaise that no single writer can encompass it. We have no Emerson or Whitman among us. An institutionalized counterculture condemns individuality as archaic and depreciates intellectual values, even in the universities. (The Anatomy of Influence)

When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make no bones about the fact that I steal from here and I take from there, and we all do it, that's perfectly all right, that's the nothing, there's nothing new in the world, there's nothing actually new in the way that you do something, but the point is is how do you take something and use it to articulate what is essentially a core of any given theatrical production.

It's a true honor to have the endorsement of the Kentucky Professional Fire Fighters.

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...

The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs.

So there’s an . . . an etiquette to raking. Some seducer’s code of honor. Is this what you’re telling me?

My whole right arm is tattooed in honor of 'Wizard of Oz.'

You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.

If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity.

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

We learned that whether or not you support the war, you honor the soldiers that fight.

It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.

Through our thanks, we honor all possibilities and bring the ones we choose into this world.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.

There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.

You can't have real and authentic friendships unless you honor your feelings.

There were other Anti-Christs among the Nephites, but they were more military leaders than religious innovators... they are all of one breed and brand; so nearly alike that one mind is the author of them, and that a young and underdeveloped, but piously inclined mind. The evidence I sorrowfully submit, points to Joseph Smith as their creator. It is difficult to believe that they are a product of history, that they came upon the scene separated by long periods of time, and among a race which was the ancestral race of the red man of America.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

It was an honor to coach him. He should be proud of what he did this year.

Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

Being a part of the Women of Honor championship tournament is historical.

It is an incredible honor to be named the Colts' Walter Payton Man of the Year.

When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

And when they have done their job, America must look after and honor its veterans.

An award recognizing your talent is an honor. That matters a lot to me.

If the hall of fame happens, what a tremendous honor. But it's just icing on the cake.

There's no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about it.

I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.

True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.

What would a Frey know of honor? - Sir Davos Seaworth

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

For me, playing Mahadev has been the biggest challenge, honor and satisfaction.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

It's a great honor even to be compared to such amazing artists as 2NE1.

It's an honor to have the support and trust of the Kentucky State AFL-CIO.

Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.