The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness… Not one is altogether noble nor… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“No account of the history of the Allahabad High Court can ever be complete without an honourable and detailed reference to Pundit… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, ..… — Alain Juppe Copy Share Image
Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and… — Augustin Thierry Copy Share Image
I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
You are so to put forth the power that God has given you; you are so to give, and sacrifice to give,… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
“Do What Thou Wilt; because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur… — François Rabelais Copy Share Image
Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love swimming in the darker seas, so even if I play a noble guy (well, like Lincoln for instance) I am… — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you. See these noble gifts in… — Charlene Costanzo Copy Share Image
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both… — Paloma Picasso Copy Share Image
Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world… — Alan Loy McGinnis Copy Share Image
To have a match that's an hour and 15 minutes or whatever it can be, it takes a lot of brilliant minds.… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
