Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is… — John O'Donohue 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
Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for… — Francis Hughes Copy Share Image
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
... there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had… — Thurston Clarke Copy Share Image
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature;… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image