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He may not have political experience but he is honorable and a fighter. – Nikos Kapios	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He brought a rare and honorable quality to the work place, and commanded a level of respect even when one did not necessarily agree with him, there is really no one else equal to Gary's level of understanding and expertise that he brought to the study of the Kennedy assassination films and photographs, and his knack for telling a good story. – Nicola Longford	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Luckily everyone felt the same way, the only thing to do here is to retire him gracefully and send him off in the most honorable way we could think of. – James Wan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It was an honorable mission he was on. – Elizabeth Young	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The whole point was if Richard's remains were found Richard III would get the dignified and honorable burial Richard III was denied in 1485. – Phil Stone	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There is nothing remotely satanic or demonic in this, this is a very gentle movement on how to be a good friend, good to your family and an honorable person. – Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I refuse this nomination because I don't think it's up to a government to say who is honorable, they would do better to focus on reviving growth in France and Europe. – Thomas Piketty	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If we can do I-Squared, I think it would open the door to real, decent, honorable immigration reform itself. – Utah Senator Orrin Hatch	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ideals, of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax. – Lionel Trilling	added by anonymous 10 years ago
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? – Harriet Martineau	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods. – Gertrude Stein	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country. – George Washington	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. – Mary McCarthy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,To speak dishonorably is pardonable. – Sophocles, Creusa	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all. – Leo Rosten	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor. – Major General Sir William Napier, Peninsular War [1810]	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. – Pindar	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good. – Peter Cooper	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He was my friend, faithful, and just to me, but Brutus says, he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. Did this in Caesar seem ambitious. When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should me made of sterner stuff, yet Brutus says, he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man. – William Shakespeare	added by acronimous 14 years ago
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. – Welsh Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago

He may not have political experience but he is honorable and a fighter.

– Nikos Kapios

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He brought a rare and honorable quality to the work place, and commanded a level of respect even when one did not necessarily agree with him, there is really no one else equal to Gary's level of understanding and expertise that he brought to the study of the Kennedy assassination films and photographs, and his knack for telling a good story.

– Nicola Longford

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Luckily everyone felt the same way, the only thing to do here is to retire him gracefully and send him off in the most honorable way we could think of.

– James Wan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It was an honorable mission he was on.

– Elizabeth Young

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The whole point was if Richard's remains were found Richard III would get the dignified and honorable burial Richard III was denied in 1485.

– Phil Stone

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is nothing remotely satanic or demonic in this, this is a very gentle movement on how to be a good friend, good to your family and an honorable person.

– Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I refuse this nomination because I don't think it's up to a government to say who is honorable, they would do better to focus on reviving growth in France and Europe.

– Thomas Piketty

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If we can do I-Squared, I think it would open the door to real, decent, honorable immigration reform itself.

– Utah Senator Orrin Hatch

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ideals, of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.

– Lionel Trilling

added by anonymous
10 years ago

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

– Harriet Martineau

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

– Gertrude Stein

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.

– George Washington

added by anonymous
10 years ago

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

– Mary McCarthy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.

– Dejan Stojanovic

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

– Sophocles, Creusa