#noble

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #noble




Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


#beautiful #done #fine #firm #fit

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


#dissemination #enterprise #exist #goes #indispensable

It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.


Sarah Dessen


#leave #life #love #malfunction #noble

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#noble #passion #philosophy #poet-knights #poetry

Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.)


Tom Angleberger


#noblesse-oblige #humor

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.


Ralph A. Cram


#aristocracy #art #august #civil #definite

You’re not quite the one because you don’t feel permanent. You’re lovely. You’re here. You’re soft and comfortable and I can curl up beside you and hey, at least neither of us are alone. You don’t feel like the start of something, you feel like the continuation of nothing. You’re not quite the one because we’re not even thinking about crazy concepts like the “one.” No one is meeting anyone’s parents. No one is going to be a plus-one at anyone’s friend’s weddings. No one is holding hands on the subway train. You’re not quite the one because you’re not meant to be the one. You’re a bookmark, a beautiful pause, a blinking light on hold at an office desk.


Karen Noble


#love #quite-the-one #beauty

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


#back #came #did #entirely #fitting

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.


Frederick II


#greatest #new #next #noblest #off

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?


Milton Friedman


#nobler #political #really #self-interest #somehow