Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent… — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse… — Confucius Copy Share Image
What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I try to preserve a certain amount of time away from the movies, so I don't allow time to do those smaller… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of… — Richard Ney Copy Share Image
Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race.… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared… — Pope Julius II Copy Share Image
Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The Christian who desires to follow Jesus carrying his cross must bear in mind that the name "Christian" means "learner or imitator… — Anthony Mary Claret 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
The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Love is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself. — Ibi Kaslik Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise. — Plato Copy Share Image
“We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble. — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all… — George Sand Copy Share Image
