Noble Quotes - Page 9

• It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

  Algernon Blackwood

  Beautiful, Moon, Evil

  Algernon Blackwood (2015). “Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (Unabridged): 10 Novels & 80+ Short Stories: The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, John Silence Series, Jimbo, The Willows, The Human Chord, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Wave, The Listener…”, p.2578, e-artnow

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• So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

  Don Cheadle

  Men, Play, Black

  "Actor Don Cheadle". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. February 21, 2012.

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• I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

  George Catlin

  Men, Past, Race

  George Catlin (1857). “Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: With Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing ; with 360 Engravings, from the Author's Original Paintings”, p.16

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• 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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• I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

  Hari Kunzru

  Writing, Good Day, Narcissistic

  "'I'm the bloke who got the big advance'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2004.

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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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• My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

  Bob Dylan

  Education, Thinking, Neglect

  Song: My Back Pages, Album: Another Side Of Bob Dylan

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• To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

  Fiona Shaw

  Hard Work, Joy, Elude

  "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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• One of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.

  Douglas A. Zembiec

  Enemy, Can Do

  "The unapologetic warrior". Interview with Tony Perry, www.latimes.com. August 22, 2004.

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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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• Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Strong, Children, Good Luck

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Jungle Book: Illustrated”, p.20, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

  Alexander the Great

  Men, Limits, Should

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• Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide. ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward the highest principles.  Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Heart, Young Friends

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.41, SPCK

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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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