Quotes About Noble

Right. Of course. So many of us would voluntarily turn ourselves over to a...What was it? A vampire? No, wait, a vampire goddess. To save the lives of other people. Yeah, you're right. That's not noble. I do that every day before breakfast. Twice on Fridays.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.

Forgiveness is alchemy. To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it and turn it into something noble and fine. That is true alchemy. Remember that. It's not always easy, but if you can do that, you'll have a happy life.

Does God take care of beasts, and not of his more noble creature? And therefore we ought to judge charitably of the complaints of God's people which are wrung from them in such cases. Job had the esteem with God of a patient man, notwithstanding those passionate complaints.

Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, arnt you

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted . . . and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears.

There is an old song which asserts that 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted . . . and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears.

of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time. If it sometimes pains them to make a choice—if the choice turns out to look like a 'noble sacrifice—

best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted . . . and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears.

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

This might be the most noble thing I've ever done. Noble, for the record, cuts like a blade to the heart.

Sunlamps and food and safety. Sounds mighty nice. I want that for you. Because I love you. This might be the most noble thing I've ever done. Noble, for the record, hurts like a blade to the heart. Je t'aimerais toujours, Jack Je t'aimerais toujours. I will love you forever.

What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

I am of the religion of all those who are brave and good.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours - to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world.

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.