Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up, I liked the sympathetic characters played by Alan Arkin, Jack Lemmon, and James Stewart. They… — Judge Reinhold Copy Share Image
The United States is guilty. We're not treating people fairly. We're not treating people with dignity. Building a wall is an affront… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in… — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them. A religion… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Through the 1990s, 'Reason' was a voice of 'dissident feminism,' upholding the equal dignity of both sexes and supporting the rights of… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“We’re not descendants of slaves. We’re descendants of free people who were enslaved.' Francia Márquez Mina, Afro-Colombian Vice President of Colombia” — Francia Márquez Mina Copy Share Image
Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy,… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job,… — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking.… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
“Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar… — David Folkenflik Copy Share Image
In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Work does have some value and some dignity, but I don't think working 14 hours and not being able to pay your… — Michael Tubbs Copy Share Image
If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable,… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function — Gottfried Bohm Copy Share Image
For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometime in my 20s, a wise mentor said something that dramatically changed my outlook and that has stayed with me ever since.… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery,… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image