“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they… — Plato Copy Share Image
Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly. — Julie Kagawa 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
To try to stop war by placing before men's eyes the terrible suffering involved will never succeed, because men are willing (in… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The… — Kevin McKenzie Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
A man once said that the pinnacle of success Is when you've finally lost interest In money, compliments, and publicity A noble… — Todd Snider Copy Share Image
The difference between Reggie Noble and Redman is that this 'Reggie Noble' album is more conceptual. It got concepts on it, it… — Redman Copy Share Image
Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is… — Rocco DiSpirito Copy Share Image
It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
The late King's great service for the Muslim world and his noble deeds of charity and assistance for the poor of humanity… — Khaleda Zia Copy Share Image
Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible? — Adelaide Anne Procter Copy Share Image
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
