Admirable Quotes
Admirable Quote of the day
I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.
Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.
There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.
In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog.
Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.
Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.
Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.
The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification.
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.
McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
When you stop admiring yourself and let the eyes of the heart open your vision to vast other worlds then all you do, will become admirable
An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.
Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement
I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people.
A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.
I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
