How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you? — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread. — Dionysius of Halicarnassus Copy Share Image
Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created. — Bahá'u'lláh 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
The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that… — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the… — James Hillman 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
But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or… — Anonymous 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
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair. — Wendell Phillips 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
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
