Noble Quotes - Page 14

• One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

  Jeff Daniels

  Needs, Attention, Oscars

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Religious, Book, Careers

  Interview with Simon&Schuster, www.simonandschuster.com.au.

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• The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Science, Past, Men

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

  Billy Joel

  Fighting, Age, Politics

  Song: Prelude, Album: Turnstiles, 1976

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• Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

  Denise Juneau

  Teacher, Children, Hard Work

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• I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Block, Character, Progress

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• My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

  Dean Norris

  Dad, Guy, Eras

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Letting Go, Powerful

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• "We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

  Abraham Cowley

  Art, Garden, Eagles

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• When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.

  William Sanderson

  Book, Army, Law

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 11, 2009.

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• The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Enlightened

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• I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

  Randall Munroe

  Numbers, Shelves, Eyeballs

  "When Pixels Find New Life on Real Paper" by Noam Cohen, www.nytimes.com. April 19, 2009.

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• There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is
  to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both
  sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a
  matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best
  generals and the better army!

  Charles Bukowski

  War, Army, Matter

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.263, Canongate Books

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• There is an old song which asserts '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. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Song, Pain, Believe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from any personal interest or political ideology. My words are not those of a foe or an opponent. I am interested only in helping those who are in thrall to an individualistic, indifferent and self-centred mentality to be freed from those unworthy chains and to attain a way of living and thinking which is more humane, noble and fruitful, and which will bring dignity to their presence on this earth.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Self, Political

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.61, BookBaby

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• It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

  Criss Jami

  Responsibility, Knows

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.68, Criss Jami

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• I knew, deep down, that love, though a beautiful beginning, isn't enough. It's the practice of honoring and caring for another that's noble, not the emotion of love itself. The emotion is the easy part.

  Megan McCafferty

  Beautiful, Caring, Practice

  Megan McCafferty (2006). “Charmed Thirds: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.139, Broadway Books

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• If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!

  Pierre Daninos

  Dog, Believe, Animal

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• He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

  Khalil Gibran

  Accomplish

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• place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Children, Real

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• Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gold, Affliction, Clay

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• From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.

  Hugo Black

  Men, Law, Justice

  "Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 18, 1963.

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• There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

  William Ralph Inge

  Country, Military, May

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• Ego is vital but not noble.

  Kedar Joshi

  Ego, Morality, Virtue

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• You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different plateau of consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Moving, Mean

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