(142 quotes found)
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble”
Helen Keller
“Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
Wellington Mara
“He was a noble collector whose name is indelibly linked to this masterpiece.”
Chen Xiejun
“Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Because it's very clean, very impeccable but then it's all inspired by the legions and nobles of the North. The hair is done like a Munch painting, and the things are inspired by the music of Grieg.”
Karl Lagerfeld
“So many movies are reviewed off their intentions, and noble intentions are fine, but I think that's an easy version.”
Walter Hill
“We all know that noble cause for war that Bush talks about has changed several times.”
Celeste Zappala
“The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.”
Phyllis McGinley
“Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.”
Voltaire
