Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Sarah Addison Allen

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

William Cowper

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.

William Hazlitt

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

William Davis

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

Yann Martel

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

Ronda Storms

I may not have dignity in your eyes, but at least I have my integrity.

Jose Saramago

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

Kathy Reichs

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Barack Obama

I think that given how closely divided the court is and given the magnitude of some of the decisions that will probably be coming down during the course of his tenure on the court that I will be flying blind a little bit. There's no way to tell how his judgments will come down on some of these critical issues.

Wu Bangguo

We may introduce useful regulation from western laws and should never blindly copy them.

Nick Hardwick

I'd kind of go in blind and be fine in college, ... But now I've got to know what's going on ---- my opponent's every move and being able to see what the defense is going to do before it's going to happen. But that just happens through film study.

William Butler Yeats

I am content to live it all againAnd yet again, if it be life to pitchInto the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch,A blind man battering blind men.

Walter de La Mare

So, blind to Someone I must be.

Wyndham Lewis

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

Dom Capers

I have no doubt that this team's going to hang in and keep fighting. They're disappointed and frustrated, but they have to put blinders on and prepare for the next challenge.

Joe Moore

I like him. It's just that he has this blind spot when it comes to corruption. I don't think he ever realizes the seriousness of it.

Skyler Green

I love it. You can get killed on that play. It's just blind faith, and I have faith in my blockers.

Muhammad Ali

Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.

B. F. Skinner

Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

Baruch Spinoza

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

C. S. Lewis

Obedience is the road to freedom.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

Blaise Pascal

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Anthony de Mello

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

Randy Alcorn

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.