What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes... — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously… — Martial Copy Share Image
No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved… — Nick Frost Copy Share Image
If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room,… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if… — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them;… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good… — Solomon Schechter Copy Share Image
Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,'… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well; — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image