Hounour Quotes & Sayings

If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour. — J.R.R. Tolkien

History is a burden. Stories can make us fly. — Mark Gatiss

No offense," she muttered, "but fucking drink. — J.R. Ward

I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage. — Renee Fleming

I question whether any Turk, of all that have entered the Paradise of Opium-eaters, can have had half the pleasure I had. But, indeed, I hounour the barbarians too much by supposing them capable of any pleasures approaching to the intellectual ones of an Englishman. — Thomas De Quincey

Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work. — David Ogilvy

God stipulates in the Bible that Jesus Followers are to love and serve everyone regardless of their faith or lack of it. But, this does not require us to honour and respect their Biblically-heinous cultural practises like multiculturalism does! — Gary Patton

I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right. — Thomas Paine

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.) — Charles Stross

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain. — Rick Baker

The true Christian loves his Savior with his whole heart and wants nothing to do with the sin that nailed his Redeemer to the cross. — Kirk Cameron

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes. — Vivienne Westwood

Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth. — Heidi Hayes Jacobs

There is humanity before the great Remy Johnson and humanity after it, I never asked for that sort of greatness. — James Marquess