Honneur Quotes

#1. Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals.

Tina Brown

#2. You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d'honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don't like Sarkozy, but that's ridiculous. I refused because I don't like decorations - except on women.

Azzedine Alaia

#3. Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

Carol Leifer

#4. It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.

Hafez

#5. You don't need to know how. You just make up your mind and it happens.

David Levithan

#6. Having the book-club army embrace you is a gift that keeps giving for years.

Christina Baker Kline

#7. One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.

Kresley Cole

#8. I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

Matt Damon

#9. It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.

Augusten Burroughs

#10. We must be conventional, Jack, or we are so cruelly, so vilely misunderstood. Even you, who are a man, cannot say what you think without being misunderstood and vilified

George Bernard Shaw

#11. I was too young to have watched '90210.'

Megan Fox

#12. Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Rabindranath Tagore

#13. Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.

Sorin Cerin

#14. I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn't unordinary; I wasn't extraordinary.

James Mercer