Zitat des Tages über Edel / Noble:
In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
The colored race saved to the noble women of New England and the middle States men on whom they lean today for security and safety. Many of my race, the representatives of these men on the field of battle, sleep in the countless graves of the South.
If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?
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.
If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have.
Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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.
Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
