#ono

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#considered #discontented #embassy #fellow #filled

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

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. ↗

— Pindar

#childhood #graceful #honorable #immortality #old

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#companion #country #honour #i #okay

To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#am #been #come #determination #games

I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#honoured #i #i am #interested #lewis

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. ↗

— Plato

#astronomy #compels #leads #look #soul

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. ↗

— Plato

#clear #compels #draws #events #everyone

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman. ↗

— George Plimpton

#favorite #her #kate #monologue #relationship

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#anything #bank #bank robbery #class #class distinctions