Dignified Quotes

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

My rule for the corporate stuff is the same as with my music - I do whatever means I can sleep at night and whatever means I can be dignified.

The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.

I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.