Admirable Quotes
When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.
Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
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.
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine.
Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.
For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly.
The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."
Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.
Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.
Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.
As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.
The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging or scrubbing. The colour stays where it is put.
There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.
I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.
When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.
I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.
The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.
I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America.
On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.
It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.
Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work.
We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind. I don't like that style whereby you kind of stitch people up. But the deeper thing is that I just find these people so impressive and admirable.
U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.
Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.
There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.
What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.
A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.
A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.