There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart. — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
Prayer is the noble supplication which we lift up to the throne of the Most High. It is the most efficient means… — Pier Giorgio Frassati Copy Share Image
Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Davellon may be a village, but the Davellon House can be anything you make it. Nobility has to start somewhere. It might… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while… — Christian D. Larson 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
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and… — Misty Upham Copy Share Image
The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in… — Jennifer Phang Copy Share Image
Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat. — Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert Copy Share Image
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless... — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
