“What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown.” IfsGivingNightDiesWealthFireSeaHonorFortunePreservesRoughDecaySlipperyRough Seas Author:Francis Quarles
“These are the lords That have bought titles: men may merchandise Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities From sea to sea, and from shore to shore: But in my thought, of all things that are sold, 'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold: It cuts off all desert.” MenShouldMayLordCuttingSeaHonorAll ThingsGoldPityDesertTitlesShoreTrafficCommodityMy ThoughtsMerchandise Author:Eliza Haywood
“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.” TruthLyingPleasureSeaAdventureHonorBattleStandingWindowErrorsShipsWanderShoreCastlesMistTempest Book:Complete Essays Source: Complete Essays
“As soon as that little "ba-da-da-dink-dink" at the beginning of "Under the Sea" starts I think to myself: "Here we go! Let's do it!" When I first got the role, I was very intimidated because people have high expectations. But I have nothing to prove only to share. I'll do my best interpretation of what these songs should sound like in their current incarnations and it's quite an honor.” PeopleThinkingShouldFirstsLittlesSongSoundRolesSeaShareHonorProveExpectationsCurrentsInterpretationIncarnationIntimidatedHigh Expectations Author:Tituss Burgess
“Meekness is an unchanging state of mind, which both in honor and dishonor remains the same. Meekness consists in praying sincerely and undisturbedly in the face of afflictions from one's neighbor. Meekness is a cliff rising from the sea of irritability, against which all the that waves that strive against it break, but which is itself never broken.” InspirationalMindStatesChristianFacesReligiousBreakSeaBrokenPrayingHonorRemainsStriveWaveNeighborRisingOrthodoxState Of MindAfflictionSincerelyCliffsMeeknessUnchangingDishonor Author:John Climacus
“Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.” GivingShouldNamesSeaRegretArmsHonorOceanGainsSellsSecureFortunatePearlsWooing Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Kazuhiko could have taken his gun and aimed it at the person behind them. But Sakura wouldn't want that. What she wanted was to leave this world quietly before they got sucked into this horrible massacre. Nothing was more important to him than her. There was no room for compromise. If this were what her trembling soul wanted, then he would follow her. Had he been more eloquent he might have described his feelings as something like, "I'm going to die for her honor." Their two bodies danced in the air beyond the cliff, their hands still clasped together, the black sea under them.” IfsWorldWantPersonsStillsTwoImportantSoulFeelingsBodyHandsMightWantedTogetherDiesBlackRoomsBehindsTakenAirSeaThis WorldHonorGunHorribleCompromiseCliffsTremblingEloquentMassacres Author:Koushun Takami
“If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.” PeopleIfsKidsJesusSeaDyingPaintingHonorBattleGloryCrossesCancerIllnessHopefullyNecksSomedayYellowPlagueMartyrFeverParadesBitingDead PeopleSmallpoxPeople DyingYellow Fever Author:John Green
“Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.” MenHandsEarthEvilHeavenFreedomLibertyOur LivesRiskSeaOughtHonorTreasureCompareCaptivityPrecious Gifts Author:Miguel de Cervantes