Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you. See these noble gifts in… — Charlene Costanzo Copy Share Image
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are so many causes. Gun control, climate change, deforestation, animal welfare, human welfare, education. Working on the big issues is noble… — Moby Copy Share Image
but it wasn't just about my feelings. The more I got to know you, the more I was certain that you'd do… — Nicholas Sparks 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
In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I love swimming in the darker seas, so even if I play a noble guy (well, like Lincoln for instance) I am… — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and… — Augustin Thierry Copy Share Image
Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, ..… — Alain Juppe Copy Share Image
Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness… Not one is altogether noble nor… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“No account of the history of the Allahabad High Court can ever be complete without an honourable and detailed reference to Pundit… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon… — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if… — Katherine Philips Copy Share Image
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood"… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist,… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
In a mucked up lovely river, I cast my little fly. I look at that river and smell it And it makes… — Greg Brown Copy Share Image
I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare… — Libbie Block Copy Share Image
