Noble Quotes

I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.
Debra Messing

Life, Marriage, Age

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
George William Curtis

Great, Best, Thoughts

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.
Jeff Daniels

Movies, Help, Attention

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.
Jim Jarmusch

Nature, Character, Human

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.
Egon Schiele

Great, Beautiful, Joy

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
Egon Schiele

Sadness, Father, Else

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
Gerrit Smith

Truth, Rights, Mercy

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.
Brian Mulroney

Political, Afraid, Spend

What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
Jack Kingston

Success, Great, Perfect

Tears are the noble language of the eye.
Robert Herrick

Language, Tears, Eye

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
William Weld

Government, Wrongs, Addressing

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
Franz Grillparzer

Nothing, Arrogance, Ideas

I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
Ellen Pompeo

Life, Teacher, Find

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.
Michael Moore

Good, Struggle, Making

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Delmore Schwartz

Love, Courage, Difficult

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.
Gustav Heinemann

Trust, Political, Open

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
Pat Brown

Books, Movie, Television

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
Wendell Phillips

Power, American, Last

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
Felix Frankfurter

Life, Great, Live

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
Olive Schreiner

Human, Bring, Ten

I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.
Mohammed Omar

Life, Islam, Everything

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
Isaac D'Israeli

Criticism, Author, Critic

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
M. F. K. Fisher

Good, Wine, Moon

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.
Mark Shields

Him, Says, Supporters

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.
Margaret Cavendish

Children, Giving, Through

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
Albert J. Nock

Business, Society, Knowledge

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
Albert J. Nock

Business, Society, Knowledge

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
Joshua Chamberlain

Power, Future, Deeds

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
John Fletcher

Alone, Thoughts

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
Alfred de Vigny

Real, Rather, Less

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