#confer

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#attends #await #brave #brave men #conferred

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. ↗

— Plato

#benefit #conferred #injure #may #often

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#because #confer #hated #hideous #impose

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things. ↗

— Joel Silver

#ask #conferences #good #i #like

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size. ↗

— James Sinegal

#conferences #costco #equivalent #grows #i

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. ↗

— Tertullian

#confers #dies #himself #lives #only

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#also #boston #college #conference #crash

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#conference #december #decided #england #imperial

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#any #anyone #cannot #chief #chief executive

We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#call #conference #feature #five #people