Quotes About Dignified

Leaving to do jihad in Syria became a dignified exit from a life that offered nothing else, Emad said, which made vulnerable young men easy prey for militant recruiters.

I'd send Eleanor a dignified note. Then I'd have to fall out of love with her. That was the rough part. Everything in life is organized around people falling in love with each other. Falling is easy; but no one tells you how to fall out of love. I didn't know where to begin.

He knew how dignity of work meant that a hard day's labor should provide a decent standard of living.

The American presidency combines elements of the efficient and the dignified. The president presides over governance - not making legislation but proposing it, cajoling the co-equal federal legislature and then signing and executing the laws.

All meditations on death should be avoided, according to Reynolds Price: "Never give death a serious hearing till its ripeness forces your final attention and dignified nod.

Nonetheless, I can't help but be flattered that you noticed the latest addition to my collection," he said. She rolled her eyes. "Because personal injuries are such a dignified thing to collect." "Are all governesses so sarcastic?

There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

I do so think well of a man who dies with finesse.

Why must you choose the only dignified person in this crew as the butt of your mockery?" "Because, my dear man," Ham said, imitating Breeze's accent, "you are, by far, the best butt we have.

Too proud to crawl?" Kelsier said. "Nonsense! Why, I'd say that we Mistborn are too proud not to be humble enough to go crawling about -- in a dignified manner, of course." Dockson frowned, approaching the desk. "Kell, that didn't make any sense." "We Mistborn need not make sense," Kelsier said haughtily.

That was not a glare. That was a dignified look of measured contempt.

Death was more like what we went through in the park: two people walking side by side in the mist, rubbing against trees and bushes, and not a word between them. It was something emptier than the name itself and yet right and peaceful, dignified, if you like.

The Dakota, which had been so proud that it had never had to advertize or hang out an "Apartments Available" shingle, now found it practical to do so. The new board of directors ruled against a shingle, but it did agree to advertise. The Dakota's first ad, in December 1961, did its best to be both persuasive and dignified. It read:

The Jefferson is such a dignified hotel / There is no such thing.

We did not notice the jeering glances of the passengers, a lubber-like assembly, who marvelled that two fellow beings should be so companionable; as though a white man were anything more dignified than a white-washed negro.

Las noches, estrelladas y solemnes, parecían altivas damas en terciopelos enjoyados.

Our young people are patriots and heroes whom we can be proud of before the world; that they have a large contingent of such trustworthy young people is a great blessing for the Workers' Party of Korea and a source of pride for Korea, and this assures the great strength of our dignified state and its bright future.

The Kennedy assassination is one of the ghostliest parts of our history. The Kennedy family - that's our royalty. It's fascinating and tragic and just strikes to the heart of our country. Here's the youngest president ever, full of hope and promise, and he made government service seem like it was dignified.

They are a stuffy lot, and rather too fond of pomp and circumstance.

Reba is very, very close to everyone around her. She's a classy lady.

He had sunk from his modest elevation as pastoral king into the very slime pits of Siddim; but there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not. And thus the abasement had been exaltation, and the loss gain.

but there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

There is a dignity about the social intercourse of old Indians which reminds me of a stroll through a winter forest ." — Frederick Remington