Honorableness Quotes & Sayings

...and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late. — Toni Morrison

Silence creates its own violence. — Jeff VanderMeer

Snippets from here and there - she's old, she tends to digress — Kavita Kane

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left. — Winston Churchill

An art dies when it describes itself instead of life - when it turns from the expression of man's feelings in the void, to a mere description of the void. — Jack Kerouac

We can be saved, the Holy Spirit can dwell in us, and yet we can continually live in defeat because the enemy can outwit us if we do not depend on the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. — Beth Moore

Everyone knows there are foods that are sexy to eat. What they don't talk about so much is foods that are sexy to make. — Julie Powell

Obstetrics went about improving the same way Toyota and General Electric went about improving: on the fly, but always paying attention to the results and trying to better them. And — Atul Gawande

He loved me. He'd loved me as long as he he'd known me! I hadn't loved him as long perhaps, but now I loved him equally well, or better. I loved his laugh, his handwriting, his steady gaze, his honorableness, his freckles, his appreciation of my jokes, his hands, his determination that I should know the worst of him. And, most of all, shameful though it might be, I loved his love for me. — Gail Carson Levine

There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't. — Sam Rayburn

WORK MAKES MEN. A university is not merely a place for making scholars, it is a place for making Christians. A farm is not a place for growing corn, it is a place for growing character, and a man has no character except that which is developed by his life and thought. God's Spirit does the building through the acts which a man performs from day to day. A student who cons out every word in his Latin and Greek instead of consulting a translation finds that honesty is translated into his character. If he works out his mathematical problems thoroughly, he not only becomes a mathematician, but becomes a thorough man. It is by constant and conscientious attention to daily duties that thoroughness and conscientiousness and honorableness are imbedded in our beings. Character is — Henry Drummond

Trust was, after all, a freely given commodity. Once lost, it was not easily — H. Leighton Dickson

I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option ... It sucks to have to grow older. We all have to accept it. — Gwen Stefani

But then again, didn't all marriages carry thousands of hurts? Didn't husbands and wives injure each other all the time, leaving wounds both big and small, with snapped words or forgotten anniversaries or emotional buttons deliberately pushed? But thousands of kindnesses existed in marriages, too. The important thing was that the kindnesses triumphed over the hurts. — Sarah Pekkanen

As soon as he comes into view, I lose the war. The war I didn't even know I was fighting. It doesn't happen often, but when I do find a guy attractive, it's better when it happens with a person I want it to happen with — Colleen Hoover

We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical records that Kaiser is collecting and the genome sequence variations. — Elizabeth Blackburn

There is too little mystery in the world; too many people say exactly what they feel or want. — Robert Greene

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now? — Abu Bakar Bashir