Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit. — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet… — Pat Oliphant Copy Share Image
In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is… — Rocco DiSpirito Copy Share Image
There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her)… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“To be of noble birth is a great advantage. In eighteen years it places a man within the select circle, known and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you,… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family -… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Gamaun is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed, Full of fire, and full of bone, With all his… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
If one of you sees, sometime, something unedifying and so much as goes on to pass it on and put it into… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
The American people have on many occasions been willing to shed their own blood for a noble cause, like when hundreds of… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me. — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession. — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families. — Mencius Copy Share Image
Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
