Every noble work is at first impossible.
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Nothing is more noble nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.
I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life I'm not a teacher I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians the Buddha of the Buddhists the Jehovah of the Jews the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.
Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment it's all excellent it's all noble.
About the twenty-third year of my age I had many fresh and heavenly openings in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character born for religion comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment and spiritual life begins again.
Is woman a religion? Well perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Politics is a profession a serious complicated and in its true sense a noble one.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet though he has never written a line in all his life.
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose tainted as it is with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
There is nothing more corrupting nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature than the exercise of unlimited power.
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
There are certain pursuits which if not wholly poetic and true do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees for instance.