Noble Quotes - page 9

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable. (Robert Menzies)
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. View quote
Tecumseh
And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for. View quote
Tom Schulman
Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes. View quote
Christina Hoff Sommers
Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time. View quote
Anna Gunn
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone. View quote
Adrienne Clarkson
Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us. View quote
Denise Juneau
New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions. View quote
Ellen Swallow Richards
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. View quote
Edward Dowden
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have. View quote
Fiona Shaw
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. (Horatio Alger)
The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans. View quote
Howard Fineman
I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless. View quote
Hari Kunzru
Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature. View quote
Jack Miller
Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football. View quote
John Boyle O'Reilly
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. View quote
John Sterling
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. View quote
M. F. K. Fisher
George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters. View quote
Mark Shields
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand. View quote
Olive Schreiner
In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics. View quote
Pete McCloskey
Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people. (Paul Sorvino)
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art. View quote
Ralph Adams Cram
In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard. View quote
Rocco DiSpirito
Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. View quote
Willis Polk
England has got successful competitors in America, Japan, France, Germany. It has competitors in the handful of mills in India, and as there has been an awakening in India, even so there will be an awakening in South Africa with its vastly richer resources - natural, mineral, and human. The mighty English look quite pigmies before the mighty races of Africa. They are noble savages, after all, you will say. They are certainly noble, but no savages and in the course of a few years the Western nations may cease to find in Africa a dumping ground for their wares. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi