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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.
That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.
Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.
Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.
In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock.
We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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.
If I conduct myself publicly and privately in a way that is honorable, not just to the people of the district that I represent but to God, then I will feel like I have been successful.
I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.
When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.
Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.
There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.
We have a completely unregulated digital landscape. There is almost no oversight. We are placing blind trust in companies like Facebook to do the honorable and decent thing.
If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.
In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side
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.
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
'Glory' pays tribute to honorable men who faced unimaginable discrimination even as they fought to preserve basic human rights.
The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material.
It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.
What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?
I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.
America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.
What do you mean, a ghost? The Honorable James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame, heir to the fourteenth Earl of Hardsdale, is taking no insults from young girls!
The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
The old and honorable American notion, that a person who works hard should be able to live in freedom and security, with dignity - seems to have taken on a secondary status.
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.
General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!
I have an honorable discharge from the United States Navy. Hillary Clinton don't have one. Bill Clinton don't have one. Trump don't have one. Obama don't have one.
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
[Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]
I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable.
It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.
Your mother was a goatherder. (Savitar) It’s an honorable profession. (Takeshi) Yeah, for a goat. (Savitar)
Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.
Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.
Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do
If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.
If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.
