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
I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct… — Jim Thorpe Copy Share Image
It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need… — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy… — George Lillo Copy Share Image
“There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.” — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart. — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity… No inspiration is too noble… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
You’re too visible, Albert,” Hadrian explained. “Can’t afford to have our favorite noble hauled to some dungeon where they cut off your… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a worldview, whether they know they have it or they don't. They might even get it when they are little… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But waiting for 'eventually' to prove the alarmists wrong is not the wisest course of action. Unfullfillable ambitions to stifle growth will… — John H. Sununu Copy Share Image
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. .… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . .… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand 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
True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless... — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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