A Quotes
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“An honest smile is an icebreaker.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.”
“An honest wife is better than a shrewd mistress.”
“An honest, open environment can bring out the best in people.”
“An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity . . . is really the most respectable man in society, [and] makes himself and all about him most happy.”
“An honest, sincerely stated compliment helps to build character; criticism destroys it.”
“An honor is not diminished for being shared.”
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.”
“An honorable adversary is better than a dishonorable ally.”
“An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
[Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]”
“An honorable death is well and good, but if the life at stake is not your own, what then?”
Source: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
“An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.”
“An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.”
Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
“An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.
It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
“An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic.”
“An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.”
“An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.”
“An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need, especially if they were in a foreign country. Why? For fear of acting like a coward or of being boorish. I repeat, I admire the fact that, those persons have, through human respect, more courage than Christians and priests have, through charity or through their good intentions.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.”
“An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.”
“An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.”
Source: Strange Bedfellows: My Crazy-quilt Memoirs, Life-maxims and What-not
“An honourable man is fair even to his enemies; a dishonourable man is unfair even to his friends!”
“An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes!”
“An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.”
“An hour a day, every so often, it forces you to pay attention to something that has no importance.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“An hour ago Cutwell had thumbed through the index of The Monster Fun Grimoire and had cautiously assembled a number of common household ingredients and put a match to them.
Funny thing about eyebrows, he mused. You never really noticed them until they'd gone.”
Source: Mort
“An hour and a half later, Dallas stood beside me in Jackie's enormous walk-in closet.
...
"So what should I wear tonight?"
"That's why you lured me in here? I thought you wanted seven minutes in heaven." He gave me a lopsided grin.”
Source: From Fame to Shame
“An hour and a half later, we are the proud parents of two massive sheets of Monster Cake, some impressive concoction called Unicorn Ice Cream Bread, three dozen Kitchen Sink Macaroons, peanut-butter-and-jelly cupcakes, a three-layer Paige creation dubbed Sex-Positve Brownies ("Slutty Brownies," Pepper explained, "but Paige took a course on feminism and sex work, so."), an ungodly amount of banana pudding, and a bunch of misshapen cake balls we rolled around in melted chocolate and stuck in the fridge.”
Source: Tweet Cute
“An hour and seven minutes after walking up. I stood with Noelle outside the Trust's house and prepared to raise my first -- and hopefully only -- demon. Three minutes after that I looked at my demon and burst into laughter. "What?" the demon asked, turning its head 360 degrees to examine itself "What's so Funny?" "Why is the Summoner laughing and crying at the same time? I don't see what's so funny. I'm a demon; where's my respect? Where's the fear and cowering before me?”
“An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet. At ground control the radar altimeters also have stopped-on readings of 102,800 feet, the figure that we later agree upon as the more reliable. It is 7 o'clock in the morning, and I have reached float altitude... Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.”
“An hour before I got cast in [Victorious] they called and asked if it'd be okay for them to do ANYTHING they wanted with my hair, even a blue mohawk or a bald head and I eagerly said yes!”
“An hour in her presence, and he was ready to hit his knees, submit to her every whim.”
Source: In deinen Armen
“An hour is indeed a long time when you count every second”
“An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)
“An hour later, a group of men from the funeral home arrived. With my grandfather's help, they cleaned my grandmother's body and marinated it in rice alcohol. When the wine had straightened her limbs, which had stiffened from rigor mortis, they dressed her in new clothes. Using a thick red thread, they tied her two big toes together to prevent her spirit from wandering.
A cheap red lacquered coffin was brought into my grandparents' bedroom. A layer of sand was spread at the bottom to cushion the body. Rich families would use tea leaves instead of sand. The more expensive the tea, the richer and higher in status the dead were. We covered the sand with coarse, loosely woven cotton gauze. After my grandmother's body was laid inside the coffin, a small dish filled with burning oil was placed on the ground beneath it to keep her spirit warm. Incense in a large urn perfumed the air. It was time for friends and relatives to pay their respects.”
Source: The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
“An hour later after we'd christened the bed, we lay side by side staring up at our naked selves. "Jack?"
"Yes, sweetheart?"
"The mirror has to go."
"I like it."
"Do you like what we just did?"
Jack gave a satisfied rumble. "Very much."
"Would you like to do it again? Ever?"
Jack froze as understanding dawned. "I've changed my mind about the mirror."
"I thought you might.”
Source: 'Til Heist Do Us Part
“An hour later. the moon reflected its light on the Tigris as well. The sun, the moon, and Fatima. What else could I ask for?”
Source: Baghdad: The Final Gathering
“An hour later Tianna was walking toward Planet Bang, wearing a sweater shell with sequins and an ankle-grazing skirt slit up the sides to the top of her thighs. She glanced at the waning moon and stopped. There was something important she had to do before the moon turned dark and it was in some way connected to Justin and Mason, but what? She stared at the sky as she continued, hoping the memory would come to her the way soccer and skateboarding had.
When she rounded the corner, the music grew louder. A neon sign throbbed pink, blue, green, and orange lights over the kids waiting to go inside. She recognized some of them. It seemed as if everyone had come with a friend or friends. Their heads turned and watched her as she walked to the end of the line.
She spread her hands through her hair and arched her back. As long as they were going to stare, she might as well give them a show. She twisted her body and stuck one long leg out from the slit in her skirt. Guys smiled back at her as she stretched her arms in a sexy pose. The girls mostly turned away, pretending they hadn't been checking out their competition.”
Source: The Lost One
“An hour of anxiety cannot change my circumstances, but a minute of prayer can alter everything.”
“An hour of doing can save you 10 hours of planning.”
Source: Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping
“An hour of my time is a tiny price to pay for all the support I've gotten from my fans.”
“An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.”
“An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.”
“An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging.”
“An hour of road trip time stretches on much longer than real life time.”
Source: Motion of Intervals
“An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.”
“An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.”
“An hour of your life is worth more than a thousand people to me.”
Source: Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series
“An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only," she wrote, "you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
“An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.”