In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.
For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit... We mean to appeal to their intellects... and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists.
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.
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.
Work alone is noble.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
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.
Food is a noble thing to trade.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.
Yeltsin was admirable but flawed, noble but tainted, but in his own negligent grandeur, he undermined his own real achievements - and accelerated their ruin.