#noble

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#become #family #i #i think #kind

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#ascendancy #came #completely #complexion #end

Dav­el­lon may be a vil­lage, but the Dav­el­lon House can be any­thing you make it. No­bil­ity has to start some­where. It might as well start with you. Let no­body look down on you, for what­ever rea­son, My Lord. Ti­tles are granted or in­her­ited, no­bil­ity isn't. ~Tenaxos I to Landar Parmingh, Baron Davellon ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#nobility #nobility-of-spirit #noble #titles #nobility

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#generation #instructs #man #more #nobler

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#been #black #complicated #does #ennoble

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#claim #contested #creature #fact #inferred

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? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#back #bargains #been #benefit #carry

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. ↗

— James Madison

#enterprise #every #expanded #mind #noble

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. ↗

— Tecumseh

#death #divide #for the day #go #great

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#afraid #canada #capital #causes #noble