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“Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you think too modestly about yourself. Everything you do is destined to be of historic significance. One day, your letters, your decisions, will belong to all mankind, like those of Wagner and Brahms.”

Thinking Sometimes Feelings Decision Mankind Position Greatness Honor One Day Letters Historical Significance About Yourself Destined Historic Wagner Brahms

Book:A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935

Source: A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935

“True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.”

Thinking Sometimes Seems Memories Half Honor Involved Remains Green Harm Graves Contradiction Logical Cemetery No Memory

Book:Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce

Source: Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce

“People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.”

People Inspirational Stills Sometimes Hurt Minutes Honor Commitment Program Sober Sobriety

Author:Tom Arnold

“Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.”

Sometimes Hate Honor Conscience I Hate Thorough

Book:Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files

Source: Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files

“Sometimes just being an immigrant, I read things the wrong way, and that can be funny. Or I'll put the emphasis on the wrong word, and that can be funny. I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It's an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.”

Way Sometimes Able Love Is Watches Laughing Comedy Player Honor Pops Immigrants Just Being Emphasis Wrong Way Dvds Affinity Wrong Words

Author:John Cho

“Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species.”

Humans Sometimes Character Age Honor Discovery Species Arise Welcome Heroic Degenerates Human Species

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.”

Sometimes Law Justice Hero Honor Bounds Limitation Villain Fewer Entertaining

Author:Len Wein

“Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.”

Years Sometimes Reading Imagine Plans Honor Findings Mark Boundaries Monument Surveyors

Author:Mark Mason

“I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.”

Has Beens Sometimes Honor Criticism Praise Bothered Puzzling

Author:Billy Joel

“Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.”

Country Sometimes Party Brother Honor And Love Casts Impression Patriotism Brothers And Sisters Partisans Your Brother Partisan Politics

Author:Ricardo Montalban

“I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.”

Sometimes Problem Used Discipline Honor I Realized Used To Be Racist Embarrassment

Book:Shrovetide in old New Orleans

Source: Shrovetide in old New Orleans

“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.”

Sometimes Values Winning Loses Leadership Inspiring Honor Entrepreneur Right Thing Wrong Things

Author:Tony Blair

“I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.”

Sometimes Spiritual Values Causes Easy Honor Tradition Western Confusion

Author:Dalai Lama

“Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Others may decieve you - you decide what's good. You decide alone, but no one is alone. People make mistakes. Fathers, mothers, people make mistakes, holding to their own, thinking they're alone. Honor their mistakes. Fight for their mistakes. Witches can be right. Giants can be good. You decide what's right. You decide what's good.”

People Thinking May Sometimes Mother Fighting Father Mistake Honor Woods Be Good Giants Making Mistakes Witch Halfway Father Mother People Make Mistakes

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.”

Way Sometimes Pain Remember Young Mother My Own Forget Saws Honor Daughter Skins Bones Flesh Scar True Nature

Author:Amy Tan

“...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor.”

Sometimes Compassion Greater Honor

Book:Shift

Source: Shift

“By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.”

Sometimes Mistake Successful Risk Students Honor Grades Being Successful Making Mistakes Honor Roll

Book:The View from Saturday

Source: The View from Saturday

“Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.”

People Ifs Men Doe Sometimes Eye Lying Violence Honor Limits Violent Stealing His Eyes Liars Thieves Cheat Be A Man Cheater

Book:The Tomb

Source: The Tomb

“Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov”

Source: The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue

“I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. And that, O kinsman, is why a woman has broad hips; that bony basin will harbor a man and his child alike. A man's life springs from his woman's bones, and in her blood is his honor christened. For the sake of love alone, I would walk through fire again.”

Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.”

“Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.”

Way Mean Sometimes Hard Reality Speak Fields Honor Integrity Findings Willingness Speaking Up

Author:Terry Tempest Williams