#sacred

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country. ↗

— James Otis

#calls #conduct #country #ease #estate

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#allowed #committing #convinced #divorce #easy

Committing yourself to one person is sacred. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#person #sacred #yourself

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#faithfulness #fidelity #human #human mind #mind

Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters. ↗

— Anita Diament

#characters #names #only #relationship #sacred

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#expression #freedom #most #rights #sacred

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings. ↗

— William Herschel

#confirming #contained #discoveries #high #human

We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself. ↗

— Walter Salles

#because #book #cult #i #into

Nothing is sacred to a gamester. ↗

— Bernard Joseph Saurin

#sacred

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead. ↗

— Mike Schmidt

#civilized #civilized society #dead #every #holds