But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern. — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life. — Monica Raymund 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The (campaign) ads all have the same tone - the voice is hushed and amazed when talking about The Enemy, as if… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
The International Criminal Court, like most international institutions, is a wonderful idea. A noble idea. All it needs to work is planetary… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
This organic conception of society, the only vital conception, combines a noble humanism with the genuine Christian spirit, and it bears the… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
“You do not want to be a noble person?" She held her thumb and index finger close together. "A little bit?" He… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image