Lack Of Nobility Quotes & Sayings

The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie. — Michael Stuhlbarg

Promise me."
"No."
Etan's eyes were glassy with tears. "Coward. If I were dying, you'd promise me. Because you wouldn't have to answer to me then. But I'm not dying, and you won't promise it. Bloody coward. — Brian McClellan

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land. — Cotton Mather

It is impossible to be a true winner without the Lord. — Sunday Adelaja

What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed? — Jude Deveraux

Rich dad explained to me that the hardest part of running a company is managing people. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Vampires aren't noble?"
"No. We serve or we prey."
"Like monks?"
He frowned, confused, and then gave a soft chuckle. "Prey, as in hunt. No God would hear our prayers. — Erin Kellison

Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping. — A.A. Milne

How terrible it must be to give up your life when you've never taken the chance to live it. How cheated you must feel, like losing a coin before spending it. To what can you hang on to and feel pride? Nothing. - Mauvin on lack of Nobility — Michael J. Sullivan

Evil men flourish. The righteous suffer. The Lord never promises we won't - only that He'll sustain us when the tribulation comes. — Roseanna M. White

The word "snobbery" came into use for the first time in England during 1820s. It was said to have derived from the habit of many Oxford and Cambridge colleges of writing sine nobilitate (without nobility) , or "s.nob", next to the names of the ordinary students on examinations lists in order to distinguish them from their aristocratic peers. In the word's earliest days, a snob was taken to mean someone without high status, but it quickly assumed its modern and almost diametrically opposed meaning: someone offended by a lack of high status in others, a person who believes in a flawless equations between social rank and human worth — Alain De Botton

This may not be art as art commonly goes; the lack of discipline, of control, would seem to rule it out of that category. And yet Woolrich's lack of control over emotions is a crucial element in his work, not only because it intensifies the fragility and momentariness of love but also because it tears away the comfortable belief, evident in some of the greatest works of the human imagination such as Oedipus Rex, that nobility in the face of nothingness is possible. And if Woolrich's work is not art as commonly understood, there is an art beyond art, whose form is not the novel or story but the scream; and of this art Woolrich is beyond doubt a master. ("Introduction") — Francis M. Nevins Jr.

Well, I reply, using the calm tone I know gets under her skin. I wish I was noble enough not to enjoy it, but I came to terms with my lack of nobility long ago. — Amie Kaufman

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded. — John Cusack

Everything holds its breath except spring. She burts through as strong as ever. — B.M. Bower

When you win a Grammy ... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one. — Yolanda Adams