Noble Quotes

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
William H. Seward

Law, Same, Authority

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, Sacrifice

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.
Pope Francis I

Politics, Good, Die

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.
George Weah

Fight, Cause, Fellow

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
J. M. Barrie

Ambition, Last, Minds

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

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

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

I think that is a noble goal that all of us should seek, to end wars and prevent wars as much as possible.
Michael Mullen

End, Goal, Possible

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

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Ludwig Tieck

Life, Living, Dead

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
Pat Oliphant

Same, Journalism, Carries

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.
Dean Norris

Good, Truth, Dad

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.
John Woolman

Age, Respect, Care

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
Richard Paul Evans

Time, Career, Books

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
Mary Augusta Ward

Life, Religion, Character

What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?
Cindy Sheehan

War, Country, Cause

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
Gabriela Mistral

Moment, Voice, Race

Being a musician is a noble profession.
Paul Weller

Profession, Musician

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
Lydia M. Child

Spiritual, Fight, Evil

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
Isaac Rosenberg

Nothing, Battle, Enough

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.
David Mallet

Great, Public, Example

The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Great, Home, Strong

The next time you download a book on Kindle, buy a Michael Moore screed at Barnes & Noble, or order up a political movie from video on demand, remember that it is the Supreme Court's decision in 'Citizens United' that guarantees you the right to do so.
Bradley A. Smith

Time, Political, Book

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.
Thomas Malory

Love, War, Death

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.
Adrienne Clarkson

Society, Creation, Piece

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
Will Carleton

Happy, Country, Dead

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Carlo Goldoni

Great, Accident, Actions

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