It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it,… — Francis Beaumont 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
Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. I worked for… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills,… — Stendhal 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
I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society,… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
I admired the earnestness of these people, many of whom had joined Greenpeace and marched for noble things in their youth. But… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see.… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ...… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he… — Henry George Copy Share Image
A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, copy editing and cover… — Ruth Glick 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“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)
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