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I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.
I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.
I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.
I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways.
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
It is impossible to think of a world in which America was not there in the honorable service of humanity.
Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two.
Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.
Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single.
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.
When I was 27, I won an honorable mention in a scriptwriting contest and got a television job as an assistant director.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration
There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.
If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.
I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!
'Glory' pays tribute to honorable men who faced unimaginable discrimination even as they fought to preserve basic human rights.
I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.
I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.
Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.
You can take my dirtiest, craziest joke, and I can break down in my head why there's a good, honest, honorable reason for telling it.
I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.
My individual way of taking on the burdens of history has changed. I don't think of them only as burdens; I think they are honorable.
For the most part, cops are decent and honorable, but that's how I know that there are bad cops, cops that you think you know so well.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.
I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.
We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.