If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece,… — Simonides Copy Share Image
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
People today, vampyres and humans alike, believe the earth is just a dead thing that they live on-that it is somehow wrong… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that.… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
“You are doing all you can to stay human in an inhuman situation. Noble it may be, but it isn't going to… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Kelsier exhaled in exasperation. “Elend Venture? You risked your life—risked the plan, and our lives—for that fool of a boy?” Vin looked… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we… — Lionel Terray Copy Share Image
I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One of the noblest men are those who try to keep their feet firm on the ground even if they are soaring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again! — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
