The 'freedom agenda' of George W. Bush's second inaugural was a noble concept - but in practice, it offered ignoble results. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously… — Martial Copy Share Image
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and… — Xavi Copy Share Image
I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply… — Silas House Copy Share Image
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
“Live with one foot in the air, but keep one on the ground. Train yourself to be aware of changes all around.… — Joan Marques Copy Share Image
Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch just announced that he is stepping down after three years. When asked if he's looking for… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin 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
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
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
May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores - by day bathed… — James Bertolino Copy Share Image
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't… — Randall Cobb Copy Share Image
Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact,… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
