N Quotes
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“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”
“Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.”
“Noble discontent is the path to heaven.”
“Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.”
“Noble endurance implies how one chooses to handle inescapable adversities in life, how one bears witness to their highest potential by transforming personal tragedy into triumph, and turning one’s plight into fulfillment and understanding.”
“Noble endurance is an act of graceful acceptance of existential afflictions.”
“Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.”
“Noble fathers have noble children.”
“Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.”
“Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.”
“Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.”
“Noble houskeepers neede no dores.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power.”
“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.”
Source: Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings
“Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.”
“Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.”
“Noble men innovate
Common men imitate
Ignoble men annihilate”
“Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.”
“Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.”
Source: The Greek Way
“Noble spirits are heterodox.”
“Noble starets, tell me, are my high spirits offensive to you or not?" Fyodor Pavlovich suddenly exclaimed, gripping the arms of his chair with both hands and appearing ready to leap out of it, depending on the reply.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Noble though it may be, our way of life is nothing but servitude. It does not take long for servitude to turn to subjugation.
– Shikandin Draupada”
Source: Kurukshetra
“Noble, breathtaking, captivating, Christ-centered femininity is truly a sight to behold. It's a beauty that does not draw attention to the woman, but to Jesus Christ. It's a radiance that is not dependent upon age, circumstances, or physical enhancements. It's a loveliness that flows from deep within--the refreshing beauty of heaven, of a life transformed from the inside out by Jesus Christ.”
Source: The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace
“NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.”
Source: Polgara the Sorceress
“Nobles are the saints who shoot the ego and the sin and still return to the planting.”
“Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.”
“Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.”
Source: Sir Apropos of Nothing
“Noblest minds are easiest bent.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions
“Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.”
Source: The Complete Greek Drama: All the Extant Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a Variety of Translations
“Nobodies are created by bad attitudes and sin. God had no time creating nobodies!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.”
“Nobody - but nobody - has ever become really proficient at golf without practice, without doing a lot of thinking and then hitting a lot of shots. It isn't so much a lack of talent; it's a lack of being able to repeat good shots consistently that frustrates most players. And the only answer to that is practice.”
Source: Golf My Way
“Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.”
“Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.”
“Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.”
“Nobody accomplishes success by themselves.”
“Nobody acts purely selfishly.”
“Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.”
“Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.”
“Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.”
“Nobody actually played tennis in my family.”
“Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.”
“Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves
“Nobody admires the sculpture of dance, and my moves are as fluid as a statue, which few people are willing to pay to watch. That's why I'm now selling duck eggs at food shortage prices.”
Source: BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight
“Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.”
“Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.”
Source: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash
“Nobody—and I mean nobody—has the right to make a person feel worthless.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside