(142 quotes found)
“What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?”
Cindy Sheehan
“I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewhat foolish guy . . . So I tell them to try to hold on to the way they feel right now. Because that's going to effect them for the rest of their lives.”
Billy Joel
“More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.”
Mark Twain
“To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.”
Lucy Stone
“[Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero.] Denying man a privileged place in creation, ... he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.”
Primo Levi
“Better not be at all than not be noble.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.”
Bible
“It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can’t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor’s tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.”
Daniel Quinn
“The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
