Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people. — Paul Sorvino Copy Share Image
She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that… — D. H. Lawrence 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
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice. — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble. — Larry Brilliant 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
I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or… — Bono Copy Share Image
Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I have often discussed the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path in talks I have given about meditation. But, since I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature,… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am not on… — Ruben Dario Copy Share Image
He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved… — Plato 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
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
The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one… — Sharon Salzberg 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
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
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
The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I thought at the time that it was noble to bear the ills one had silently. But not so silently that others… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true,… — Matthew Kelly 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
Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart. — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem. — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
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