Noble Quotes - Page 21

• In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

  Nick Frost

  Art, Discipline, Kickboxing

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• I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.

  Orestes Brownson

  Character, Attachment, Judgement

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• I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Thinking, Deeds Done, Tragedy

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.82, Bantam

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• Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.

  Pythagoras

  Mean, Men

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• Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.

  Rick Riordan

  Annoying, Sneaky, Twisted

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• We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it.

  Michael Barone

  Country, Ideas, Accomplishment

  "Spurning America" by Michael Barone, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 17, 2005.

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• I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

  Bertrand Russell

  Beautiful, Hate, Believe

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.125, Routledge

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• Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

  Karl Blossfeldt

  Pleasure, Source, Educate

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• As soon as an American man loves a girl he wants to marry her. This is not only a blunder but it is rather absurd. It is so typical of American men, always wanting to do the noble thing.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Girl, Sex, Men

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• I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.

  H. L. Mencken

  Profound, Expectations, Goyim

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• Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and I do not understand why you expect a mathematician to produce it, rather than anyone else, for the solution is based on reason alone, and its discovery does not depend on any mathematical principle.

  Leonhard Euler

  Discovery, Bridges, Principles

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• In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.

  Leonhard Euler

  Discipline, Ignorant, Way

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• It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty things. It's possible that people do nice things because they're religious. One reason might be they're hoping for a reward in Heaven, which is not a very noble reason.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Nice, People

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

  Cat Deeley

  Teach

  "Tim Gunn and Cat Deeley on Good Hosts, Bad Reality Shows and Unfair Judges". Interview with Debra Birnbaum, variety.com. August 5, 2014.

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• If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

  Pindar

  Moving, Sea, Voice

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• We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

  Terence McKenna

  Intelligent, Mind Blowing, Visionaries

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• Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Add, Yoke, Rubbish

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• And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

  Jane Goodall

  Way, Sophisticated, Rise Above

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• O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

  Paul Lafargue

  Mother, Art, Laziness

  Paul Lafargue (2012). “The Right To Be Lazy”, p.36, The Floating Press

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• Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Queens, Lasts, Novel

  Ford Madox Ford (2011). “The Fifth Queen”, p.7, Vintage

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• The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.

  Rick Yancey

  Beautiful, Queens, Kings

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.31, Penguin

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• The noble person who has eaten of his lord's bounty should die in his lord's battles; to return to one's home dead and wrapped in a horse's hide is a happy fate. Am I the sort of people to bring to nought the grand designs of my country?

  Zhou Yu

  Country, Horse, Home

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• Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours - to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world.

  Savitri Devi

  Men, Race, Allies

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• Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

  Ernest Renan

  Race, Soldier, Rebel

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• Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”

  Julian Fellowes

  Emotional, One Day, Hello

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