Noble Quotations
Noble Quotes from:
- John Ruskin
- William Shakespeare
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Mark Twain
- Winston Churchill
- Aristotle
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
- Cindy Sheehan
- Honore De Balzac
- John Dryden
- Michel De Montaigne
- Plato
- Albert Einstein
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Ben Jonson
- Charles Kingsley
- Friedrich Schiller
- George Herbert
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Expected Quotes
My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie.
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Cultural Quotes
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions.
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Change Quotes
I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. I worked for people like Robert Kennedy and I thought: 'Wow, that's what it's about. That's how you change the world.' And then I watched that disintegrate in front of my eyes, and it was very discouraging.
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Art Quotes
Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid said to me, 'I want to give it all up,' whatever it is that they're doing, 'and I want to take my saxophone and go out,' I would say, 'May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you're doing.'
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Adlai Quotes
As a youngster, I had friends who became lawyers and doctors, and I was as idealistic as anybody. When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way, too. But after a while, I said, 'Let me just finish the degree. I'm getting the G.I. Bill.'
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Buddha Quotes
The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud.
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