Quotes & Sayings About Dignity In A Lesson Before Dying

The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression. — Albert Camus

Fear in the midst of the storm is instinctive and beneficial. Fear of a storm that could happen is not. It's an intrusive emotion that can lead us to a greatly diminished life. — David Jeremiah

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. — Henrik Ibsen

Sometimes it's better just to think things through than to talk about them all the time. — Catherine Clark

Nancy drove to Twin Elms as fast as the law allowed. — Carolyn Keene

But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I love you,' either deceive themselves, or what's still worse, deceive others. — Leo Tolstoy