The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far) the most extropic, most complex product of billions of years of evolution.
Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. "The camp is safe," Octavian continued. " I'll be the first to congragulate our heroes for bringing back the legion's eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?" "I'm glad you asked. " Percy stood, taking the question as an opening. Octavian stammered, " I wasn't--" "--Part of the quest," Percy said. "Yes I know. And your'e wise to let me explain, since I was.
Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance.
Dignified, like a guest.
I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.
Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.
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.
The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it
I've repeatedly seen the anti-Russian card played during domestic political campaigns in the States. I think that it's a very short-sighted approach. It seems to me that it doesn't fully meet the level of responsibility that lies on the shoulders of the U. S. I think that all this should be more dignified, calm and more balanced.
We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.
I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me--a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.
Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I have to do is be myself and be dignified in my meditation and my lifestyle.
There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.
Men are always much more dignified than most women.
I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.
I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books
