The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of… — Plato Copy Share Image
I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others.… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent,… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience… — Isaiah Bowman Copy Share Image
...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Is anyone really surprised that Warren, who is the ultimate embodiment of concentrated decision-making power, picked somebody [Bill and Melinda Gates] who… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare… — Libbie Block Copy Share Image
Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a mucked up lovely river, I cast my little fly. I look at that river and smell it And it makes… — Greg Brown Copy Share Image
I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order,… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist,… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood"… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if… — Katherine Philips Copy Share Image
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon… — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
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