A Quotes
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“A noble heart is a window to find an open mind.”
“A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.”
“A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.”
“A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“A noble journey through the travails of time calls for a person to disregard conventional social, cultural, and moral contexts and strive to cleave a personal meaning that guides their existence.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.”
“A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1
“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.”
“A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.”
“A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words.
[Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort
Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]”
“A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.”
Source: Alphonsus, king of Arragon. James the Fourth. George-a-Greene, the pinner of Wakefield. Specimen of the History of George-a-Greene. Ballad of the Jolly Pinder of Wakefield. Poems
“A noble minded person is not an implement.”
Source: The Analects
“A noble pair of brothers.
[Lat., Par nobile fratum.]”
“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”
“A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.”
“A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.”
Source: What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
“A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;
And liquor likewise will I give to thee,
And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.”
“A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.”
“A noble soul predicates its living charter upon leading a principled existence. Without personal integrity, a person leads a feckless and meaningless life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)
“A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.”
“A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.”
“A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.”
“A noble truth is a sacred creed.”
“A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.”
Source: Plan of Chicago
“A nobleness to try for,
A name to live and die for.”
Source: Dreams and Days: Poems
“A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.”
Source: Sammlung
“A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. She stamped her little foot at me."
He pointed down to her toes as if she were a child yet.
Then he straightened his shoulders. "But I sent her back to the nursery, where she belonged, and told her to play with her dolls instead. As everyone knows, a female on a hunt is a distraction at best and bad luck at worse."
Which explained why Beatrice went into the woods with her hound alone, George thought. She looked now as though she had gone to some other place where she could not hear her father's words and thus could not be hurt by them. George wondered how often she was forced to go to that place.
Did King Helm not see how much she was like him? It seemed she was rejected for any sign of femininity yet also rejected for not showing enough femininity, How could she win?”
Source: The Princess and the Hound
“A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.”
“A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.”
“A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!”
Source: Monty Python Live!
“A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did.”
“A noi demoni non interessa tanto la direzione del vento o il verso del potere, noi ci muoviamo al di fuori delle leggi della fisica, della religione e della stupidità. Noi siamo
spiriti, né vivi né morti, noi siamo effettivamente neutri!”
Source: Aforismi contro il potere e la stupidità
“A noi mortali, purtroppo, è negato il lusso della licenza narrativa: dobbiamo vivere e andare avanti.”
Source: Kushiel's Dart
“A noi nobili della Transilvania non piace pensare che le nostre ossa riposino fra quelle dei comuni mortali. Non cerco allegrezza né letizia, né la luminosa voluttà del sole o delle acque chiare che tanto piacciono ai giovani e agli spensierati. Non sono più giovane, e il mio cuore dopo gravosi anni di lutto per i miei morti non è incline all'allegria. Inoltre, le mura del mio castello sono diroccate; molto sono le ombre e il vento soffia freddo fra le merlature e i battenti. Amo la semi-oscurità e le ombre e restare solo con i miei pensieri quando è possibile.”
Source: Dracula
“A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.”
“A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“A noisy man is always in the right.”
Source: Poems. With an introductory essay by J. Montgomery
“A noisy street is noisy, but a quiet street is not quiet because you just don't hear enough the sounds there!”
“A noite já não me parecia noite, mas um dia inexplicável, maravilhosamente opalino, e conquanto a chuva persistisse, os seus reflexos eram chispas de luz própria, emitidas por míriades de pequeninas jóias de rara espécie que configurassem o bordado duma gigantesca túnica azul, branca e dourada a descer dos céus e a envolver o mundo inteiro.”
Source: O Limite de Rudzky
“A noite mais negra se fizera através de seus gritos, a raiz do medo germinando dentro de seus frágeis corpos esqueléticos e doloridos, sufocando-os perante a realidade absurda que se desdobrava, diante dos olhos já muito cansados, onde a inocência em seus pobres corações, fora cruelmente furtada por vivas-sombras rastejantes, por dúvidas obscuras, por aparições duvidosas, fantasmas do passado e segredos perturbadores, os quais, suas almas dormentes ainda não haviam experimentado.”
Source: ...
“A noite traz a luz,
Feridas trazem elixir.
A dor traz durabilidade,
As nuvens ensinam como viver.”
Source: Monge Cientista
“A noite é a nossa dádiva de sol aos que vivem do outro lado da Terra”
Source: Obras de Carlos de Oliveira
“A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown ... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.”
“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.”
“A nomad with many more wildernesses to explore – and it is so much easier to travel away from things than towards them. But it’s the words that are a curse – because he cannot utter a simple goodbye.”
Source: Exit Kingdom
“A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.”
Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy
“A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that’s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasn’t a faith worth keeping.”
Source: If God Is Good Study Guide: Companion to If God Is Good