But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty. — Josephus Copy Share Image
What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race? — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. — Confucius Copy Share Image
No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot. — Orel Hershiser Copy Share Image
Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant,… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake-… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
“Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is one kind of charity common enough among us... It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor,… — Jamsetji Tata Copy Share Image
Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax… — Frank Howard Clark Copy Share Image
For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Count not the cost of honour to the dead!The tribute that a mighty nation paysTo those who loved her well in former… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.” — Patricia Finney Copy Share Image
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy. — Arnaud Desjardins Copy Share Image
I'll put everything I have in my capacity at the service of the noble cause and noble values of the U.N. and… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image