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When did you last have fun being dignified?
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
One has to stay dignified about whatever is happening in life.
My parents have always wanted me to pursue a dignified career.
I want to make the work space more dignified and safe for women.
We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.
The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.
I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.
To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
The government under Manmohan Singh is treating all political partners in a dignified manner.
I have been to Holot. I think it's a very good place, very dignified with very good conditions.
You have to help people who are living with AIDS. Help them to live as dignified a life as they can.
I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.
We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.
There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.
I should have the opportunity, if I need to let somebody go, to let the person go in a very humane, dignified way.
I want to work to help all those working a lifetime to be confident they will have a secure and dignified retirement.
I am an animated and flamboyant person. But it is being mistaken as brashness. So now I am trying to be more dignified.
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
Dignified and respectful quietude speaks much louder than pomp and circumstance when it comes to remembering those who died.
I believe that tears should be very private, and no matter what issue or what situation, we should have a very dignified demeanor.
All women deserve a dignified and respectful workplace in which talent, hard work and loyalty are recognized, revered, and rewarded.
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
My definition of feminism is a social, political, economic system by which all genders are valued, respected, and can live dignified lives.
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
My rule for the corporate stuff is the same as with my music - I do whatever means I can sleep at night and whatever means I can be dignified.
I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.
It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.
The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.
I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
I didn't become a caddie because I wanted to be a caddie. I was a caddie because that was how I could make money and feed myself. It was work. It was a dignified job.
All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
There I was on the front page of the 'London Times' as speaker of the House with an animal on top of my head. I liked it, but it was not what my staff thought was appropriately dignified.
I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
There's always been something about Jeffrey Tambor, not only as an actor but as a person, where his ability to embody a sort of very dignified feminine way of being just - this was just very clear to me.
I always thought that owing to their social standing, army spouses had to maintain a dignified appearance, no matter what, at all times and that their only source of entertainment was the officers' parties.
Work does have some value and some dignity, but I don't think working 14 hours and not being able to pay your bills, or working two jobs and not being able - there's nothing inherently dignified about that.
Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.
It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies into friends. Through that love, we can create more dignified atmospheres.
I'm such a fan of the Obamas in general, and I love how dignified and charismatic and how intelligent they are. They are so warm and kind and encouraging, especially of young people, and I really love seeing that.
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.
Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.