Quotes of: Noble-purpose Keyword

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

Joanna Field

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Norman Mailer

Can we please agree that in the real world, corporations exist for one purpose and one purpose only - to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?

Robert Reich

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesig...

Erik Brynjolfsson

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

P. J. O'Rourke

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Madame de Stael

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

John Ruskin

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

John Ruskin

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Martin Luther

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

Alexander's Bridge

If Duncan was ever into men then he's been so far in the closet he's been living in Narnia.

Noble Blood

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

Thomas Sowell

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Khalil Gibran

There are just two things that can make you famous.. being noble or notorious.

Ram Mohan

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Robert Dale Owen

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

James Bovard

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Taylor Caldwell

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

Charles Kingsley

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

Isaac D'Israeli

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Edmund Burke

Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.

Buzz Osborne