A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
I’ve decided, because we have a short time here, that those of us that create joy and happiness, that’s a really noble thing.
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you’re an actor. It’s also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical.
It’s the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.
My noble respect also goes to the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners, martyrs of the People’s Army and other patriotic martyrs who dedicated all their precious things to promoting the development of our Party and the prosperity of the country in loyal support of the great leaders.
Major religions are examples of ‘noble lies’ aimed at uplifting human stature.
I certainly don’t think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.
The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date palms intersected by canals fringe its margin heavily, and extend to some distance inland.
If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
Politics, I love. It’s a noble profession.
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.
I don’t know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there’s less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it – and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.
If you look at the 1960s, Hemingway was viewed on the basis of the myth of his lifestyles rather than viewing his work. Machismo was badly viewed; feminism was becoming a more noble cause. I think the feminists took him apart and assumed he mistreated women.
If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.
I believe that teaching is one of the most noble professions and it’s no easy task to shape the minds of the next generation.
Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person’s earth lives.
You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what’s onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a small town filled with noble creatures who have to get out there and make it brand new every night. When a production works, it’s unlike any other joy in the world.
Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.
Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That’s one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends’ opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.
Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.
For all the cynicism about the media, it is a noble profession. Most enter it with a strong conviction that sunlight is the best disinfectant. They champion the public interest by taking on vested interests.
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the people that broke into restless groups after the ancient Deluge and went wandering over the globe. For we find a socialist tendency in all the barbaric tribes of earth.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
Technically, I’m a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We’re a titled, noble people.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it’s easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.
Ambition – it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Sugar planting was the oil business of the eighteenth century, and Saint-Domingue was the Ancien Regime’s Wild West frontier, where sons of impoverished noble families could strike it rich.
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, copy editing and cover design. After which, you pick your way through the minefield of conforming to the differing requirements of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords, or hire someone to do it for you.
We think love is noble, and in some ways, it is. But in some ways, it isn’t. Love is just love. And sometimes people do terrible things because of it.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
I don’t know of a more noble, a bigger deal as a filmmaker than to be a YouTube filmmaker.
People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of discreditable character consider friendship with the dishonorable as a blood relationship.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
Our best selves tell us that ‘there but for the grace of God… ‘ and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God’s grief and heart for us all.
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
There were times in ‘Adaptation’ during the editing where I really thought, ‘Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.’
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.
Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.
America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
