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Honored Quotes (page 14)

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and... Ernest Hemingway
Love is brave and generous and above all it springs from honor. In order to love someone else, you must first be true to yourself. Love is not two people wanting or needing what the other can give.--Hester Latterly Anne Perry
Henry James quote: "I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I..."
I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all. Henry James
Cormac McCarthy quote: "There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor..."
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. Cormac McCarthy
Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives. Poke knew that, though. Bean warned her, and she knew it, but she chose Achilles for their papa anyway. Chose him and then died for it. She was like that Jesus that Helga preached about in her kitchen while they ate. She died for her people. And Achilles, he was like God. He made people pay for their sins no matter what they did. The important thing is, stay on the good side of God. That's what... Orson Scott Card
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. Lee Iacocca
Hollow then produced Kobel’s tax returns for the past three years. When Ringling objected, Hollow said to Judge Rollins, “Your Honor, a man who files a tax return is of sound mind.” “That’s debatable,” said the ultraconservative judge, drawing laughter from the courtroom. Jeffery Deaver
Mario Puzo quote: "Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a..."
Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery Mario Puzo
I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him, saying: O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this? Socrates
Louisa May Alcott quote: "Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors."
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. Louisa May Alcott
indirect speech and irony eventually made Austen one of the most influential and honored novelists in English Literature. Source: Wikipedia Jane Austen
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two. Graham Greene
How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar,... Amy Tan
The Tezuman Empire in the jungle valleys of central Klatch is known for it organic market gardens, its exquisite craftsmanship in obsidian, feathers and jade, and its mass human sacrifices in honor of Quezovorcoatl, the Feathered Boa, god of mass human sacrifices. Terry Prachett
Emily Giffin quote: "[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of..."
[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces. Emily Giffin

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