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“Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.”

Real Matter Water Honor Standards Wine Oil Olives Olive Oil Spaniards

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I'm in total harmony with them. I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything; nowhere an obstacle or conflict. Who cares about wealth and honor? Even the poorest thing shines. My miraculous power and spiritual activity: drawing water and carrying wood.”

Care Spiritual Water Wealth Honor Activity Conflict Ordinary Harmony Shining Affair Obstacles Woods Drawing Rejects Who Cares Miraculous Poorest

Author:Layman Pang

“In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.”

Hands Water Duty Honor Civilization Mountain China Chinese Cherish Smallest Conform Hollow Clans Placid Duty And Honor

Author:Bette Lord

“Water is life. We are the people who live by the water. Pray by these waters. Travel by the waters. Eat and drink from these waters. We are related to those who live in the water. To poison the waters is to show disrespect for creation. To honor and protect the waters is our responsibility as people of the land.”

People Shows Water Responsibility Land Creation Praying Honor Drink Protect Environmental Related Poison Live By Disrespect Water Is Life

Book:The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings

Source: The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings

“Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe in the chilly waters of verisimilitude, no matter how often it is demonstrated that photographs can and do lie.”

World Stills Real Matter Lying Water Feet Honor Photography Photograph Despite Real World Toes Dubious Chilly

Book:Defining eye: women photographers of the 20th century : selections from the Helen Kornblum collection

Source: Defining eye: women photographers of the 20th century : selections from the Helen Kornblum collection

“You might be a redneck if you've ever hauled a can of paint to the top of a water tower to defend your sister's honor.”

Ifs Might Water Honor Paint Towers Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“Water is a miracle - it takes so many forms - is the core of life - is holy. So it becomes important to pay utmost attention to the holiness which is this planet's life - blood, which we are destroying. I always look for it in a poem. I honor it. I pay it mind.”

Mind Important Water Attention Honor Holy Miracle

Author:Jorie Graham

“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.”

Men Years Mean Whole Action Water Hours Existence Risk Honor Filled Noble Stealing Observation Glorious Participation Crowded One Hour Observance Marshes Sluggish Decorum Whole Year

Book:the bride of Lammermoor

Source: the bride of Lammermoor

“And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised from our adult vocabularies. These words are the pornography of innocence, words which adults no longer use with other adults, and so we laugh at them and consign them to the nursery, fear masking as cynicism. These are the words that were forged in the earth, air, fire, and water of human existence, and the words are: Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Courage. Honor. Truth.”

“Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.”

Inspirational Doe Truth Lying Water Hurt Honesty Bears Honor Oil Falsehood Alleviate Truth And Falsehood

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote