Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience… — Isaiah Bowman Copy Share Image
Is anyone really surprised that Warren, who is the ultimate embodiment of concentrated decision-making power, picked somebody [Bill and Melinda Gates] who… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much… — George Cayley Copy Share Image
There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and… — Odell Shepard Copy Share Image
[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out… — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I just don't accept that there is a trade off between trade and democracy ... what we've got now is an institution… — Ruth Davidson Copy Share Image
Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters; call me to be my best self;… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We must be… — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
“In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that… — H. M. Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image