Quotes About Dignity

The dead should be allowed to rest in peace.

People don't want to be projects.

Ethnic jokes are the last refuge of a bankrupt intellect.

It was really about insurance costs and the ability of wealth to make working America dance like organ-grinder monkeys. We may not have a drug-free country yet, but we're well on the way to a dignity-free country.

There are many roads to dignity, and one is called character—

Cowards and men do not cry the same, and a man can cry with dignity and not confuse the two. But when women get going, they can sometimes throw ashtrays with the velocity of Sandy Koufax, and it is best to leave the house.

Every man and woman is made in the Father's image and likeness and thus shares in the dominion and dignity of the one God and King. This is one of the most astonishing elements of the story: God desires to relate to his creatures, not as a master to a slave but as a Father to his sons and daughters!

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

Taking the high road is always the best way to go. You feel better about yourself, and the world feels better about you.

It might be a shock to see me, but that's no reason for people to act crazy, and it doesn't give them license to chase me down the street.

There's no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don't exist.

Especially in a rich nation, there is absolutely no reason why everyone couldn't and shouldn't have a life of dignity.

You can't let nobody step on your ego, dismantle your whole image for no reason.

There's no reason to abuse the people who give you your monthly pay check.

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

I don't kiss nobody's butt.

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

The only shame is to have none.