Quotes About Dignity

People are sitting at their kitchen table talking about how they're going to pay their bills, and we can speak to the hearts of people on that and show them that we respect them. Ultimately, that's how we have to talk to them. We can't talk down to them.

No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.

A knighthood would be a bit too much. An OBE or an MBE or whatever they are called, one of those would be more elegant.

Have you ever seen me knock somebody out and make a big scene? Hell no.

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

I am not a labor hater.

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

Labour is not a commodity.

You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on.

Come and take your seat, Lady Dorina.

You mean you let him talk to you like that and you aren't even getting any Man what a rip-off.

What?" I said defensively, clutching the mink and my dignity. Since I was barefoot, mostly naked and completely hungover, I was pretty sure I grasped only one of them.

I've never, ever, ever -- in my entire life -- fought over a man. I've fought women who've hit me because of a man, but then I was fighting to bust her ass, not defend his.

You are Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon

You will not look at me," she heard him say to the valets. "You will see only her." A silence. Then, "And you will not look at her breasts.

her head and raised arm; her dimpled chin barely topped the

You are a fine piece of china. Don't let anyone treat you like a paper plate.

Nowhere does it say free speech is carte blanche to be a jerk. And don't cheapen real free speech by hijacking an honourable concept bought dearly with people's lives just to get a little spotlight. Spotlights run hot, and they can burn.

This is not LA, people. We shine instead of sparkle, we smile and bless their hearts instead of giving the finger. Like my mama taught me about wearing jewelry: Put on everything you want to wear, and then take one thing off.

By all accounts the Angolan people, the great majority of them poor, illiterate and living in isolated villages or urban slums, carry out their civic responsibilities with great dignity and patience. The two voting days in Angola are another confirmation that anyone who mouths the cliché that Africans are not ready for democracy is simply ignorant of the facts. African politicians, however, are a different matter.

His beard is flecked with grey now, but even at 57 he still has a cherubic face that breaks easily into a broad, youthful smile. Only his eyes betray immense pain. Dignity is the word that comes to mind when one meets him.