Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
Gods, I love this place," Locke said, drumming his fingers against his thighs. "Sometimes I think this whole city was put here simply because the gods must adore crime. Pickpockets rob the common folk, merchants rob anyone they can dupe, Capa Barsavi...
There is such a thirst to be known, isn't there? What is it about being known that would cause us to hunger so much after it, at any cost? I'm afraid too many of us have forgotten that far more noble is the journey that one embarks on to know oneself...
They’re both bungholes who think they’re too noble to shit,
Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.
We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.
Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.
You’re noble enough, Baudelaires. That’s all we can ask for in this world.
-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
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.
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
