159 Quotes About Noble
- Author Jessica Fortunato
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You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?
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- Author Justin K. McFarlane Beau
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When your cause is noble, you shall never know fear.
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- Author Shannon L. Alder
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Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.
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- Author Christopher Paolini
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This administrator of trade is the worst sort of bureaucrat. He abides by every rule, delights in making his own whenever it can inconvenience someone, and at the same time believes that he is doing good… I didn’t think I would ever meet a noble who wasn’t corrupt. Now that I have I find that I prefer them when they’re greedy bastards. - Brom
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- Author Frances Hardinge
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Even when she slept, her anxieties did not.
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- Author Stephen Jay Gould
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Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?
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- Author Justin K. McFarlane Beau
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Avarice is opposed to nobility.It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (greed) is cloaked in the nobility that is the birthmark of the people.
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- Author Justin K. McFarlane Beau
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Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers.
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- Author Joris-Karl Huysmans
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The heart, said to be man’s noblest organ, has the same shape as the penis, commonly supposed the most ignoble; the symbolism is not inappropriate, because the love which comes from the heart soon extends to the organ which it resembles.
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