Noble Quotes · Page 30

I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.

— M E W Sherwood

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

— Friedrich Paneth

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets…

— Renee Fleming

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.

— Oswald Chambers

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

— M. F. K. Fisher

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

— Jennifer Fallon

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

— Gustave Flaubert

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who…

— Denis Diderot

The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're…

— Anthony Bourdain

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble…

— Lord Byron

I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me…

— Corra May Harris

Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we…

— Pam Brown

To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it,…

— Chuck Schumer

Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the…

— Steve Lopez

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more…

— Margaret Fuller

“But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the atheist's head. The orthodox…

— Julian Huxley

These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go…

— Alexander H. Stephens

In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total…

— Sarah Strohmeyer

There's something very noble about bringing home a paycheck to provide for oneself and one's family. However, there's so much more to…

— David Kim

There are many possibilities that people can choose from. There are bad and there are good ones. So, look carefully to choose…

— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that…

— Bill Bryson

Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important .…

— Charles Darwin

“His heart stilled at the mere thought of her hurting herself. 'He was a fool.' Of course this debate harkened back to…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the…

— Jessica Stern

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the…

— Robert Herrick

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always…

— Demosthenes

Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.

— Lauren Kate

Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.

— Buzz Osborne

Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.

— Mark Kostabi

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

— Jean Froissart

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living…

— Gautama Buddha

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic…

— Anonymous

“Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.”

— Shannon L. Alder

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

— J. William Fulbright

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

— Ford Madox Ford

Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.

— Evgeny Morozov

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.

— Rick Riordan