Evan Esar Quotes
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I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
Taron Egerton -
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Washington Irving -
Silence is my dignity.
Hansika Motwani -
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Baltasar Gracian -
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Ovid -
We treated all of the dead with dignity.
Harry Anderson
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Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Vartan Gregorian -
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dag Hammarskjold -
The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten
Anderson Cooper -
More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.
Benjamin Cardozo -
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.
Arthur Wing Pinero
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Soberly and with the dignity that befits the United States Congress.
Dennis Hastert -
I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.
Paul Strand -
A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.
Immanuel Kant -
I'm not really saddened that [Pussy Riot] ended up in jail, though there is nothing good in that. What saddens me is that they took things to such a level, here, from my point of view, that they degraded the dignity of women.
Vladimir Putin -
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most vile murder does not, in my view, release the state from constitutional restraint on the destruction of human dignity.
William J. Brennan, Jr. -
The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.
Blaise Pascal -
If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.
Ernest Cline -
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.
William Shakespeare -
The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.
Alicia Keys -
There is no such thing as an ugly girl.
Aston Merrygold -
If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.
Evan Esar