238 quotes found
“everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.”
“You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.”
“Fed by neither Heaven nor by Earth he was going forward . . . He hadn't a God or a lover--the two usual incentives to virtue. But on he struggled with his back to ease, because dignity demanded it....”
“It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.”
“It was made out to be some kind of honor, giving your life for the good of humanity, but it was really just a reminder that cyborgs were not like everyone else.”
“It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind”
“Honor, vengeance, that rigorous religion, those punctilicious codes of conduct - how to explain their existence here, at the end of the world, among people who possessed nothing but the rags and th...”
“The substance of every true and stable political organism is something resembling an Order, a Mnnerbnd in charge of the principle of the imperium, comprising men who see loyalty as the basis of the...”
“All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it.Yess...”
“The man on the rise must always show respect to the man on the decline.”
“Sometimes the heart of a weary soul needs a simple moment of love and light shined upon it, or reflected back to it. That momentary connection might be the one thing that inspires a person to take ...”
“True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.”
“Ours is a world controlled by the warrior and the sword.”
“Vanity Fair--Vanity Fair! Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to read--who had the habits and the cunning of a boor: whose aim in life was pettifogging: who never had a taste, or ...”
“Damn the wars but bless the soldier.”
“In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneer...”
“Just because we can doesn't mean we should.”
“Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.”
“Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.Take honor from me, and my life is done.”
“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.”
