What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for… — Thomas Jordan Jarvis Copy Share Image
I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in… — Jennifer Phang Copy Share Image
When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth… — Sophocles 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
You present a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Ginny, listen . . . I can’t be involved with you anymore. We’ve got to stop seeing each other. We can’t be… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
How noble. Oh we would fell many...-you with magic and blade, whilst my weapons would be tooth and claw-but it would be… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To have a match that's an hour and 15 minutes or whatever it can be, it takes a lot of brilliant minds.… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world… — Alan Loy McGinnis Copy Share Image
Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both… — Paloma Picasso Copy Share Image
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
