Quotes of: Noble-purpose Keyword

Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.

Harsha Bhogle

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Jean Racine

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Richard Paul Evans

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

Queen Elizabeth II

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

Joaquin Phoenix

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Friedrich Schiller

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Roger Ebert

Stephen: Just when we thought all hope was lost, our noble saviors have arrived.

Braveheart

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Aristotle

I understand now that you cannot fight for a noble cause with heinous actions.

Love

If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.

Virginia Woolf

Mad! Quite mad!' said Stalky to the visitors, as one exhibiting strange beasts. 'Beetle reads an ass called Brownin', and M'Turk reads an ass called Ruskin; and-' 'Ruskin isn't an ass,' said M'Turk. 'He's almost as good as the Opium-Eater. He says we...

The Complete Stalky and Co.

There's blood pounding through the Duke's head. Knighthood is glory, he's thinking, not just grace in the saddle and at swordplay, but courage enough to give your life to defend what you hold dear. A noble reward, for noble men. A badge of honour. He...

The People's Queen

What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--...

Silence: Lectures and Writings

Friends have ways of speaking without words.

The Courage of Sarah Noble

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

Muriel Spark

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

Polgara the Sorceress

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

Pat Oliphant

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.

Michelle Bachelet

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

Mark Twain