William Bennett Quotes

"Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for?

William Bennett

• Death
• Honor
• Hardship
• Persecution

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• I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Man
  • You
  • Hand

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Way

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Life
  • World
  • Impossible

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Time
  • Help
  • Law

• When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Future
  • Mistake

• LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Circumstances
  • Shot
  • Off

• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Shoes
  • Year
  • White

• We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Know
  • Company
  • Stars

• I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • New

• One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Saying
  • Starting

• Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Science
  • Mean
  • Act

• Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Years
  • Hero
  • Many

• My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Job

• If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

  

  Tara Brach
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Beauty

• I didn't really have the most healthy of upbringings.

  

  Alisha Boe

• Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug.

  

  Joel Chandler Harris

• As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Up
  • Different
  • Pretty

• "Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for?

  

  William Bennett
  • Death
  • Honor
  • Hardship