Noble Quotes - Page 34

• When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

  Rob Bell

  Thinking, Goal, Controversial

  "The Good News Is Better Than That: Reflections On Hell, Salvation and the Power of Love" by Rob Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2011.

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• Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

  Annie Besant

  Profound, Sun, Worship

  Annie Besant (2016). “Esoteric Christianity”, p.7, BookRix

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• Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.

  Annie Besant

  Beautiful, Children, Father

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.403, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

  Joe Biden

  Home, Opportunity, Blood

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• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

  Bono

  Morning, Wake Up, Band

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• The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Cooking, Calling

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• Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

  Deepak Chopra

  Vision, Borders, World

  "Why Globalism Is a Victory for You" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

  Joseph Conrad

  Nature, Intelligent, Revolutionary Leaders

  Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 3 (1911)

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• I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Kings, Men, Noble Man

  Macaulay Culkin (2006). “Junior”, Miramax Books

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• To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

  Denis Diderot

  Love, Passion, Order

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.

  William O. Douglas

  Loyalty, Decision, Political

  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

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• Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

  Pope Francis

  Dedication, Common, Should

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• To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciate, Literature, Gains

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• I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

  David Hockney

  Years, Nhs, People

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• I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that's the condition that I attach in accepting any job. This way, I can really work and dedicate myself to the institution for achieving the goal which I believe is a noble one.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  Jobs, Believe, Goal

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• The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

  Robert Menzies

  Character, Blow, Law

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• If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

  Michael Moore

  Struggle, Good Movie, Needs

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

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• To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Country, War, Fighting

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea. I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. I compare ladies to the territory. So - noble at the daytime, going crazy at the night time - and the lyric says I am the right guy for the lady who is like that.

  PSY

  Crazy, Night, Korea

  "In South Korea, K-Pop Gets New King". Interview with Guy Raz, wwno.org. September 18, 2012.

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• Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.

  Steven Pinker

  Self, Hatred, Diaspora

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• Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Light, Quality, Normal

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• There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

  Victor Hugo

  Hero, Eye, Feet

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

  Horace Greeley

  Historical, Liberty, Bankers

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• So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the consequent of Jericho and all. Not to pretend out God has somehow changed since the time of Christ. Obviously, Paul's idea of admirable and noble is quite different from ours. God forgives us, Bill. We have mocked His victory by whitewashing the enemy for the sake of our neighbirs approval." No Greater Love has any man.

  Ted Dekker

  Men, Ideas, Evil

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• A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.

  Daniel Handler

  Kindness, Giving Up, Integrity

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