The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea… — Pindar Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Daniel Day-Lewis is particularly a sort of beacon I've been following for some time. For God's sake, I'm not even in his… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder,… — Bill Bryson 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
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the… — Cat Deeley Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom. — Saint Augustine 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
The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
