Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure. — Karl Blossfeldt Copy Share Image
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. — Horace Copy Share Image
Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Be strong so nobody defeats you, noble so nobody humiliates you, and yourself so nobody forgets you.” — Paulo Cohleo Copy Share Image
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Integrity is the most important accessory you'll ever have, it will never go out of fashion, get old, or fade. It's the… — Alexis Jones Copy Share Image
“Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves--their convictions and their aspirations--every… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The bigger the crowds get, the more nervous I get. I actually am very comfortable with a half-filled room of people who… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
Daniel Day-Lewis is particularly a sort of beacon I've been following for some time. For God's sake, I'm not even in his… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“I notice you didn’t include a blade with your new attire,” Royce said. “Not even a little jeweled dagger.” “Lords no.” Albert… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Just for me - obviously, not all writers think this - but for me, I feel like seeing my book in Target… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mix with the noble people, you become one of them; and keep away from evil people to protect yourself from their evils. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“There is much that is noble in all religions, but there is also much that is terrible.” — H. Rider Haggard 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
Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. — Herman Melville 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
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. — Horace Copy Share Image
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ross Noble at the Leicester De Montfort Hall on his Randomist tour - it's the only time I've hurt from laughing at… — James Acaster Copy Share Image
