Odd words floated back to them over the hundreds of heads. "Nobility of spirit"..."intellectual contribution"..."greatness of heart"...It did not mean very much.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify… — John McCain Copy Share Image
While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it… — Aristotle 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
PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed .… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the… — Charlie LeDuff Copy Share Image
The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings. — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
“You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is… — Annie Oakley Copy Share Image
My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a… — Cesar Luis Menotti Copy Share Image
You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake… — SebastiAn Copy Share Image
