The next time you download a book on Kindle, buy a Michael Moore screed at Barnes & Noble, or order up a… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an… — Sanai Copy Share Image
In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The… — Jacob Burckhardt 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
As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about… — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that… — Andy Webster Copy Share Image
I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal,… — Charles Darwin 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
I think Ross Noble is the only person that I've seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Han?” “Yeah, sweetie.” “How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?” “I don’t know, sweetie. Mostly… — Troy Denning Copy Share Image
Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oÆ’ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I… — Randall Wallace Copy Share Image
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea… — Pindar Copy Share Image
In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
