A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
Aristotle
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Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!
George Washington
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
William Shakespeare
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.
William Shakespeare
We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
Wendell Phillips
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.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Sir Philip Sidney
Anything that helps enhance democracy to give average people a voice is a noble and good use of technology.
David Sifry
If our greatest hungers were to be granted as easily as our bodily needs, we certainly would never be able to achieve the noble feelings of friendship and love.Patience will make the banquet of life ever so much more resplendent.
Anne Austin
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark
I think it was absolutely a noble cause. Kids watched it for the entertainment, but they were learning at the same time. I think it's something brilliant that deserves to be out there again.
Rita Moreno
His last days, a noble confrontation with death, made his life as much a work of art as his plays.
Robert Brustein
Bringing the Hilton San Diego Resort into the Noble House Collection is a great addition to the company - the additional rooms and facilities will give us a great advantage in attracting both business and leisure travelers to the area and to meeting the needs of area residents.
Bob Foster
Russ was probably one of the last guys to give it a heck of a try. The idea was noble.
Alex Linke
God save our gracious king! / Long live our noble king! / God save the king!
Henry Carey
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
Pietro Metastasio
Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
Charles Kingsley
Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit.
Narenda Rocherolle
Manners, -- The final and perfect flower of noble character.
William Forrest Winter
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
Otto von Bismarck
He thought it was kind of a noble thing, and we prayed about it. He knows that God is going to take care of us.
Laura Bagsby
Englishmen have very noble and excellent qualities which I should like to see imitated here, but I should not like to imitate them in everything. I like our own habits and character better, they are more consonant to my nature; I like our own turn of thought, our own characteristics, and above all I like our own language.
Douglas Hyde
To have someone dead at your feet is such an honor and so noble.
David Torres
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken
It's an important document, the charter, ... Hopefully the people running are doing this for noble reasons, like keeping Dearborn a great place, and not for their own agendas.
Michael Guido
Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
Jack Miller
Helping people lift themselves out of poverty is truly a noble mission.
Paul Wolfowitz
Amazon had to build its name up from scratch, ... Barnes and Noble, on the other hand, is very well known. It's obviously much bigger and has greater financial resources.
William Armstrong
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
Adrienne Clarkson
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lyn Yutang
We've published a book on homosexuality and the Bible, ... that's available for $12.95 at Amazon.com or at Barnes & Noble.
The Children
With Robinson, you have to remember his son was in Vietnam. If you have children there you want to believe the cause is noble, or you want to get them home.
Chris Lamb
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
James M. Barrie
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoover
It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.
Christopher Bailey
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
Paul Conrad
How important this job is. Entering this profession is not only noble, but absolutely necessary for the future -- for our state and our country.
Suellen Reed
Ellis and T.C. are going to get faster and Harvey is going to get faster. But I've got to get that fourth leg decided on. If it's going to be Noble, his time came down (Tuesday) in the 100. He's a strong kid and he works hard.
Curt Weber
He was a noble collector whose name is indelibly linked to this masterpiece.
Chen Xiejun
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
John Sterling
Look how noble the world is, the lonely-flowing waters, the secret-keeping stones, the flowing sky.
Robinson Jeffers
The person, who causes the downfall of a noble woman... who causes loss to his friend...who despite of his superiority is ignorant; is called a fallen man.
Atharva Veda
This is so unique and it is nice to focus on something that is such a noble deed. Here this woman collected this material and her husband and family are honoring her memory. I am truly looking forward to it.
Bruce Wells
The suit that Barnes & Noble filed was extremely poorly timed.
Melissa Bane
Why can't a woman be more like a man? / Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; / Eternally noble, historically fair.
Alan Jay Lerner
If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.
Nisha Singhania
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures . . .
M. F. K. Fisher
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Carlo Goldoni
A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.
David Mallet
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
W. R. Inge
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This is not a noble cause. This is a nobility cause.
Cody Camacho
Being a brand ambassador for such a noble cause is a matter of pride for me. I get to preach what I practice.
Smriti Irani
I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.
Theodore Tilton
There is a noble and a base side to every history.
Thomas Wentworth
No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be, ... it's a crapshoot.
Orel Hershiser
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
The noble man is only God's image.
Ludwig Tieck
Life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing, full of liking and love, at times a poem and a high adventure, at times noble and at times very gay; and whatever (if anything) is t.
Rose Mccaulay
I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.
Nicholas Sparks
We want to bring these troops home, ... I don´t believe this is a noble cause. I believe they were sent there for a lie.
Patrick Miller
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Taylor Caldwell
It's interesting that by taking these people, they're doing the opposite of what they set out to do. They're bringing attention to how noble and necessary their work is in Iraq.
Paul Slattery
Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
Ralph Bunche
A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.
Dr. Robert Greene
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Edward Chapin
HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. By that good lady the Houris are said to be held in deficient esteem.
Ambrose Bierce
It's the Barnes and Noble effect.
Frances Roberts
We try to deal with small publishers who aren't well known. These are wonderful books, but you'll never find them at B. Dalton or Barnes & Noble.
Dave Craig
We all know that noble cause for war that Bush talks about has changed several times.
Celeste Zappala
Our bookstore is merging with Barnes and Noble and also brining Starbucks Coffee on campus as well. That will be a great asset to the students as well as the community. We hope to begin construction on the new bookstore sometime this fall.
John Schmidt
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