Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Marcel Proust

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

Joseph Addison

The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.

Joseph Addison

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

Khaled Hosseini

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

Henry David Thoreau

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

Mahatma Gandhi

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

Laurence Sterne

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Friedrich Schiller

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Tom Ellis

I feel like I'm giving back to society a little bit. There's a lot of causes out there, and 99% of them are for people. There is very little out there for the animals.

Michael Gartner

He's involved in a lot of central Iowa causes and issues and is just a terrific guy.

Gigi Hadid

If you don't like it, don't follow me, don't watch me, cause I'm not going anywhere.

Edsel Ford

Each of these dealers not only gives so much of their time and money to a wide variety of causes, but they encourage others in their communities to do the same. Their efforts are inspiring and we are very proud of them.

John Millington Synge

Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.

Jennifer McCausland

It's clear that the governor understands the potential problem that gambling causes teenagers, and the lottery in particular.

Nellie McKay

It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple of home towns - but, you're playing for all the people you knew in high school, so it causes no small degree of panic in my mind.

David Nabarro

It simply is telling us that the virus may be changing the way it interacts with humans. It does not tell us that the risk of a mutation that causes the pandemic is increasing or decreasing.

Nelson Mandela

The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Kong Quan

We are not in a position to receive this visit.

Tony Gwynn

It's about getting in position and taking a swing. I don't care if you're taking steroids or not; if you don't do those two things, it's not going to matter anyway.

George Thorogood

We'd never be in this position if it weren't for our fans. They're the real reason we keep going and as long as they want us, we'll be there.

Dick Jauron

We'd like to have him in, but we also understand his position in this thing.

Wayne Oakes

We aren't in a position to be able to comment,

Philip Hammond

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Ken Lisaius

The president's position is that it is important to keep that legislation moving.

Clint Eastwood

If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.