I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
He's a pit bull," Adam said. "I know some really nice pit bulls." "He's the kind of pit that makes the evening… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even… — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things,… — Thomas Hughes 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
Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I believe that the core battle of our day is the battle to defend the inherent dignity of each and every person,… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and… — Glenn Archer Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly,… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which… — Theresa Villiers Copy Share Image
Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful-… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
From Day One, I've told [my troops] that killing is not wrong if it's for a purpose, if it's to keep your… — Douglas A. Zembiec Copy Share Image
Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself That you have no time to criticise others, To be too large… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity… No inspiration is too noble… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
![“From Day One, I've told [my troops] that killing is not wrong if it's for a purpose, if it's to keep your nation free or protect your buddy, one of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.” quote by Douglas A. Zembiec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b6/douglas-a-zembiec-76967_buddy_from-day-one-i-ve-told-my-troops-that-ki_1929996.jpg)
![“If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.” quote by Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7ff/willa-cather-634_achieve_if-the-writer-achieves-anything-noble-an_3181044.jpg)
