Quotes of: Noble-cause Keyword

I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.

Feud

...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...

A Familiar Rain

Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.

The Black Cauldron

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

Paul Conrad

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

Ralph Adams Cram

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Anna Karenina

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

The Omnibus of Crime

The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.

Love in the Time of Cholera

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Last and Lost Poems

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

Leviathan

Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.

Yukio Mishima's Report To The Emperor

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

George William Curtis

Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.

On the Shortness of Life

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

H.L. Mencken

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

Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

Robert Herrick

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

Larry Brilliant

Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.

Lauren Kate

The bigger the crowds get, the more nervous I get. I actually am very comfortable with a half-filled room of people who are slightly disinterested and are irritated at a Barnes & Noble.

Maria Bamford

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

Mark Crispin Miller