Sentences with phrase «noble thing»

I have tried most noble things in life at least once.

Sounds like a very noble thing until you start reading and discover it contains blatant political opinions, and quite extreme ones at that.

You have been caught up in this hype and you think you are doing this grand noble thing.

Your father loves you very much and has done a very noble thing.

The UN can pass its time in doing noble things such as passing resolutions, sending representatives, and other forms of looking busy, but can do exactly nothing that really helps prevent or punish.

Here is the culmination of Israel's thought about natural law: a glorious day should dawn when man's jungle impulses would atrophy, when right would triumph deep in human nature, and society would pursue its happy course in a state of «anarchy,» of «no law,» because everyone would do the high and noble thing through his love for it, in obedience to the unwritten law inscribed on his heart!

He added: «I think Andrea has done the very noble thing today.

It would, however, have been a far more noble thing to graciously and appreciatively accept the inaugural award from Booktrust, and then openly donate Amazon's funds to the UK's independent booksellers and their member organization.

He told me that, in spite of everything, he was desperately upset that he hadn't been called up to the front: because he passionately believed that to be a British soldier, defending our values of liberty and peace, was the most noble thing you could be.

Fighting for the rights of the oppressed is a noble thing.

Our Founding philosopher, John Locke, didn't actually say work was a good or noble thing, and so we can't help but look up to people who have either worked or lucked their way out of it.

It is a good and noble thing to work, but work can sometimes be used as a way to avoid facing more important aspects of life.

And, as president, Abraham Lincoln did one incomparably grand and noble thing: He freed the slaves.

But to hunger and thirst after righteousness is a great thing, a noble thing.

«When friendships were the noblest things in the world,» Jeremy Taylor once wrote, «charity was little.»

It is an outward and spiritual sign of the greatest, holiest, worthiest, and noblest thing that has ever existed or ever will exist: the union of the divine and the human natures in Christ.

This may seem like they're doing the noble thing, but really they're just trying to cover their allotment for tickets.

It is a noble thing to do for a busy and great F1 driver such as Stoffel Vandoorne.

In fact, I think I was led to believe that the more I gave and the more that I said no and worked and achieved that the better mom I would become and that was the right and noble thing to do.

It is because we love that we feel the pain of loss, and that is a noble thing.

Their adoption guide will only talk with Chloe, not Josh, on the phone, and keeps saying that she's «making a selfless gift» and «doing a noble thing» by planning an adoption.

«It's one of the nobler things we do on behalf of mankind,» said Bill Readdy, NASA's associate administrator of space operations.

In 1984 the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute set out to do a noble thing: fight heart disease, obesity, and all the complications that come with it.

Bogart delivers one of the silver screen's most memorable bastards in Dobbs, a braggart who boasts of his immunity to the charms of gold only to be unable to list one noble thing he'd do with his cash besides play the big shot for people who've wronged him.

As «The Secret Life of Pets» proved just two weeks ago, mindlessly killing an hour and a half on a summer afternoon can be a noble thing.

Disney even does the noble thing by also including a 2.0 Dolby Surround English that is truer to the original stereo theatrical soundtrack.

Is Penn doing the noble thing by taking down the criminals, or is he a rat bastard, disowning himself from the way of life and people who helped him along the way?

The most noble thing that Gang - ok does is create an elaborate bartering network whose primary beneficiary is, well, him.

Mostly, it's a study of one man's self - imposed repression, but also a country still wrapped in tradition, where doing the noble thing didn't always coincide with what was the best thing.

«If the aim of Education be correctly defined as being to give a knowledge of the best and noblest things done or said in the world, then Education must keep a place for the Classics or be untrue to itself.»

It was a noble thing to do.

Some stories approach fantasy, as in «Requiem for a Glass Heart,» when a man called only «the stone thrower» loves a woman made entirely of glass, and in «Noble Things,» in which a couple must choose sides for the sake of their son after the second Civil War and the secession of the American South.

Other times we make love such a pure and noble thing no poor human can ever meet our vision.

All the noble things in my character, the one who is ambitious, who cares about justice, who wants to win, I gave to Sigerius.

Teach your kids the value of money and not to love the money but love the noble things we can do with it, such as taking care of family, taking care of needs around us, making good financial choices and decisions, etc..

My grandmother used to tell me that the noblest thing I could do is to give animals food and water.

Adopting a pet is a noble thing because, in many cases, you could be literally saving a life.

Next to lending a helping hand to people in need, one of the noblest things a person can do is to help those without a voice; homeless companion animals in the community.

So we did the noble thing and got someone to sneak in and shoot some on the fly gameplay footage of Forza Motorsport 6 in action.

On her darkroom door she posted the following statement by Francis Bacon: «The contemplation of things as they are / Without error or confusion / Without substitution or imposture / Is in itself a nobler thing / Than a whole harvest of invention.»

The idea was for me to be a doctor and a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, which, for someone coming out of the Black community, was a noble thing.

Passionate belief and the desire to persuade others of the rightness of your cause is a noble thing and not to be discouraged.