I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty… — Horatio Alger Copy Share Image
I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that's the condition that I attach in accepting any job.… — Sri Mulyani Indrawati Copy Share Image
All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded;… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
O blessed bounty, giving ail content! The only fautress of all noble arts That lend'st success to every good intent. A grace… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside,"… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores - by day bathed… — James Bertolino Copy Share Image
but it wasn't just about my feelings. The more I got to know you, the more I was certain that you'd do… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There are so many causes. Gun control, climate change, deforestation, animal welfare, human welfare, education. Working on the big issues is noble… — Moby Copy Share Image
I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I love what I do, and I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it, and… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed… — Polybius Copy Share Image
These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that… — H. M. Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and… — Misty Upham Copy Share Image
I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Most of the time I live with my pain. I have pain but I won't show it around. I think that's the… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam,… — Kaspar Hauser Copy Share Image
What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part… — Donald Bradman Copy Share Image
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Davellon may be a village, but the Davellon House can be anything you make it. Nobility has to start somewhere. It might… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal,… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
