Quotes by Authors - Page 306

You ask me to make a promise? I am in a cage. No promise I make is trustworthy because I would do anything to be rid of this cage. Promise me that you will not treat me like an animal or a spectacle, and I will see what I can do.
J.M. McDermott
It’s always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.
Mark Lawrence
A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.
Jonathan Glover
They that live at the source of a great river shall always take the great river for granted but they that live at the estuary of the great river shall always watch the great river in awe and admiration!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity.
G.K. Chesterton
We will not run," Paul said. "We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done.
Frank Herbert
We may now understand better, too, why my father was so fond of the story of the butler who failed to panic on discovering a tiger under the dining table; it was because he knew instinctively that somewhere in this story lay the kernel of what true ‘dignity’ is.
Kazuo Ishiguro
It is the lowered head that makes her seem less noble than, say, a horse, or a deer surprised in the woods. More exactly, it is her lowered head and neck. As she stands still, the top of her head is level with her back, or even a little lower, and so she seems to be hanging her head in discouragement, embarrassment, or shame. There is at least a suggestion of humility and dullness about her. But all these suggestions are false.
Lydia Davis
Familiarity increases carnality.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When you meet familiarity which demeans true integrity, run away!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There is plenty of dignity in just holding on
Steven Erikson
Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won't even give you honesty.
Shannon L. Alder
She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.
Antonia Fraser
Shh,” Cobweb said with a well-time jab of the elbow, “we might be able to get some dignity out of this, if we play our cards right.
Lisa Mantchev
He’d valued his dignity more than his own life.
Hyeonseo Lee
The most important thing is our dignity. If we have that we can survive on bread and water.
Richard Flanagan
Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper.
George Eliot
There are some promotions in life, which, independent of the more substantial rewards they offer, acquire peculiar value and dignity from the coats and waistcoats connected with them. A field-marshal has his uniform; a bishop his silk apron; a counsellor his silk gown; a beadle his cocked hat. Strip the bishop of his apron, or the beadle of his hat and lace; what are they? Men. Mere men. Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles Dickens
The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.
Dick Francis
If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
William Shatner
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.
Laura Hillenbrand
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
Ernest Hemingway
LADIES!!!! You are not a SEXUAL OBJECT! - not a PUNCHING BAG _ not a target for EMOTIONAL ABUSE! You worth more than that! You were created by God to be a Partner to MEN not a SLAVE, to provide Strength and support to them not to be used and manipulated by them, to submit to them not to become fools in that process. You have your Dignity and Self Worth. Never sacrifice those!
bolanle john
He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He’d been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian Jewish mother who had grown up in poverty, telling stories, often, of extending a chicken to its fullest capacity, so as soon as a restaurant served his dish, he would promptly cut it in half and ask for a to-go container. Portions are too big anyway, he’d grumble, patting his waistline. He’d only give away his food if the corners were cleanly cut, as he believed a homeless person would just feel worse eating food with ragged bitemarks at the edges – as if, he said, they are dogs, or bacteria. Dignity, he said, lifting his half-lasagna into its box, is no detail.
Aimee Bender
What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
Paulo Coelho
Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.
Laura Hillenbrand
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
Dave Eggers
It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.
John Green
What's that?""The laundry basket?""No, next to it.""I don't see anything next to it.""It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.
John Green
The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Facts are subversive
I.F. Stone
If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.
Shlomo Sand
Memorization has gotten a bad rap recently. Lots of students, and even some educators, say that being able to reason is more important than knowing facts; and besides, why bother committing things to memory when you've got Google? My response to this - after I've finished inwardly groaning - is that of course reasoning is important, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't know facts as well. It's not like you have to choose between one or the other. Besides, facts give you a foundation on which to reason about things.
Stefanie Weisman
The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.
Lionel Suggs
They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.
Glenn Greenwald
Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.
Lu Xun
all fiction is better with explosions' said Jared. 'Basic fact of life.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Man cannot be content in his riches even if he has the whole world, there must be a frivolous extra desire.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Life wasn't all fucking sunshine and rainbows. Real life was hard.
Kendall Ryan
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body.
Yann Martel
Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.
Gordon R. Dickson
I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke.
André Breton
Ive allways wondered what the 4 letters in the word LIFE stands for. I know understand that it stands for: Little Interesting Facts Everyday.
Armin Houman
A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.
Joseph McCabe
But what are facts, really, except things we’ve already proven? There could be lots of almost-facts out there, still waiting for proof.
Kathryn Reiss
The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.
John Leslie
Every day that we read the news we have the possibility of being confronted with a fact about our world that is wildly different from what we thought we knew.
Samuel Arbesman
To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.
Julian Huxley
... those selling abortion don't want them to have [the facts]," Virginia said heatedly. "Besides the Supreme Court doesn't agree with you. They judges seem to think we poor women would fall apart if we knew the facts, so they decided women don't have the right to know the full truth." She shook her head. "They've made it legal to withhold vital information, even when a woman requests it, for heaven's sake!
Francine Rivers
It is easier to align our opinions with facts, than it is to align facts with our opinions.
Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The ocean is six miles deep.
Joe Dunthorne
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Arnold H. Glasow
Facts are always required to draw conclusions and make serious decisions.
Sunday Adelaja
Only the simplest of facts can be accepted as an undisputed truth.
Eraldo Banovac
But these notes make no pretense of being a record of fact. That isn't their object. They are merely notes of impressions, a record of vagrant thoughts, hopes, ideas that have floated through the mind of one present-day American. It is likely that I have not, and will not, put into them one truth, measuring by the ordinary standards of truth. It is my aim to be true to the essence of things. That's what I'm after.
Sherwood Anderson
Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again, you must learn to trust again.
Nicholas Sparks
You look especially beautiful this morning, Monza."That brought a smile to the corner of her mouth. The corner he couldn't see. "Well. Facts are facts.
Joe Abercrombie
Facts which were new to me were daily presenting themselves to my mind.
Noah Webster
Fact is is always truth but truth is not always fact
Bangambiki Habyarimana