No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when… — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
“A small bubble of air remained unabsorbed... if there is any part of the phlogisticated air [nitrogen] of our atmosphere which differs… — Henry Cavendish Copy Share Image
The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Your soul is that part of you that existed before you were born and will continue to exist after you die. So… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs.… — Rami Ollaik Copy Share Image
“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches… — Rose of Lima Copy Share Image
I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times,… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes… — Lesley M. M. Blume Copy Share Image
Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Congratulations," he said, his voice dry. "You finally managed to find a woman as tragically noble as yourself. I didn't think one… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard… — Jay Leno 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
We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
