Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude. — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
“Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.” — George Hammond Copy Share Image
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. — Boethius Copy Share Image
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on… — Dorothy Parker 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
“Being related to the horse does not make the mule a noble mustang. – To those who believe that nobility is a… — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center… — Jack H. Goaslind Copy Share Image
…for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see.… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Justice - there is an air of nobility about the word. It calls to mind other words like equity, fairness, and truth.… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
“So exalted was the idea of hegemony over self that every gentleman fell short. But the ideal itself was pursued for many… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted.… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
No system can long command the loyalties of men and women which does not expect of them certain measures of discipline, and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you are tempted to lose patience with someone and to not waste words on people who—according to you, in a given… — S.R. Piccoli Copy Share Image
The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded… — Mary Roach 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
I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
