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It is better to be honourable than be honoured.
Shiv Khera
Better
Honourable
Honoured
Than
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
Al Gore
History
Threshold
Think
Honourable
Moral
Clarity
Civil
Civil Disobedience
Cross
Understandable
Role
Quite
Urgency
Then
Certain
Disobedience
Play
My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Faithful
Virtuous
Honourable
Darling
Discreet
Mozart
Her
Honest
I achieved too little result from my principal task, the task of making my race a race that is respected, a race that is honourable, a race that is highly regarded.
Mahathir Mohamad
Result
Too
Respected
Honourable
Highly
Principal
Making
Task
Achieved
Regarded
Little
Race
I believe being honourable lasts longer than rapping good.
Killer Mike
Good
Believe
Lasts
Honourable
Rapping
Longer
Than
Being
You need to have good people: honourable, capable, committed in politics, standing in public office. It's not a guarantee, but it's the ideal we have to aim for.
Lee Hsien Loong
Politics
Good
You
People
Good People
Aim
Honourable
Ideal
Office
Committed
Public
Capable
Public Office
Standing
Need
Guarantee
The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.
Norman Foster
Work
World
Mother
Father
Parents
Ran
Honourable
Security
Only
Never
Knew
Robert
Waitress
Shop
Blue-Collar
Moved
While
Level
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
Francesco Guicciardini
Evil
Ambition
Honourable
Ways
Worthy
Seek
Spirit
He
Him
Condemned
Nor
Fame
Itself
Whose
Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.
Alan Furst
Evil
Conviction
Consequences
Honourable
Finish
Fired
Schoolboy
Done
Regarding
Fast-Paced
Start
We didn't play any Joy Division songs for 10 years after the start of New Order, which was a very honourable thing to do even if it meant shooting ourselves in the foot.
Bernard Sumner
Joy
Honourable
Ourselves
Foot
Songs
Division
New
Joy Division
Years
New Order
Very
Shooting
Any
Order
After
Which
Meant
Even
Play
Thing
Start
The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with.
Nina Bawden
Angry
Me
People
Thought
Made
Husband
Think
Else
Everything
Way
Honourable
Find
About
More
More Than Anything
Had
True
Come
Terms
Majority
Altered
Always
Still
Were
Wake
Very
Than
Decent
Anything
Crash
Anything Else
Realisation
Hard
Railways
Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man.
Arthur Cohn
Man
Speak
Honourable
Slowly
He
Michael
Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.
Howard Wilkinson
Great
Joy
Responsibility
Speed
Honourable
Recognised
He
Learner
Always
Bloke
Trustworthy
Model
Role
Role Model
Manage
Committed
Avid
Fully
Gary
Honest