High Honors Quotes

#1. High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.

Euripides

#2. Other men might dream of high honors or riches or deeds of valor sung by minstrels. I wanted to come to a small cot as light faded, to sit in a chair by a fire, my back aching from work, my hands rough with toil, and hold a little girl in my lap while a woman who loved me told me of her day.

Robin Hobb

#3. He had that extra four or five inches of neck which disqualifies a man for high honors in the beauty competition

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.

Katie Nolan

#5. We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.

Jon Porter

#6. Some tell it that "sorry" is the hardest word, but for me it has always been "help".

Mark Lawrence

#7. Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. It is through the heart that the Lord is seen, and not through the intellect.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.

Mary Cunningham Agee

#9. I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.

Gayle Forman

#10. Nobody looked at him. He passed on unsuspected and deadly, like a pest in the street full of men.

Joseph Conrad

#11. Religion is that which becomes the religion and gives results. When can we say it is this way? It is when it helps when someone insults you. It will not let you be affected by it.

Dada Bhagwan

#12. The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.

David Suzuki

#13. Dream is not what you see when you sleep at night,but dream is something which does not let you sleep.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#14. It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#15. I have such respect for ... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.

Patricia McBride

#16. First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God's high regard for the dignity of man. He has never forced us to choose Him, even when that means we would choose Hell.

Max Lucado