#noble

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #noble




To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.


Harriet Beecher Stowe


#everyday #everyday life #great #heroic #insipid

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

What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window. "Um, did I just say, 'Ya'?" "You just said 'Ya,'" he confirmed. "If I am not mistaken, it was a battle cry, warning that you were about to attack me. I, uh..." She stopped to laugh. "I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.


Shannon Hale


#jane #mr-nobley #ninja #humor

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.


Philip James Bailey


#best #count #deeds #dial #feels

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.


William Bennett


#democracy #export #human #human rights #noblest

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


#artful #builder #cathedrals #conception #creation

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.


Giuseppe Garibaldi


#bear #beauty #brave #cast #children

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


Carlo Goldoni


#actions #bold #characterize #fortune #great

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.


Nick Lampson


#life #nobler #nothing #risking #than

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.


Pete McCloskey


#bob #ethical #ethics #ford #gerry