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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart. -- Shinichi Suzuki
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. -- Gloria Steinem
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. -- Helen Hayes
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. -- Andre Gide
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. -- Pierre Curie
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. -- William Shakespeare
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. -- Jose Marti
A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. -- Lord Chesterfield
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. -- Hilaire Belloc
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. -- Rex Stout
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. -- Irving Wallace
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. -- Victor Hugo
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. -- Ben Kingsley
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. -- Sean O Faolain
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. -- Vladimir Nabokov
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects. -- Edna Ferber
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. -- Louis Aragon
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. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Anna Paquin
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. -- Winston Churchill
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance. -- Margery Allingham
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. -- George Will
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. -- Albert Camus
We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable. -- Francis Collins
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. -- Delmore Schwartz
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. -- Irving Wallace
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. -- Will Oldham
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest. -- Matthew Shultz
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. -- Sean O Faolain
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. -- Anita Brookner
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. -- William Bartram
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable. -- Henry Petroski
Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette. -- David Rakoff
I love soccer, love tennis... Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles... The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable... He is so calm... In soccer, I'm a huge fan of Barcelona... I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa. -- Virat Kohli
That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Education is an admirable thing. -- Oscar Wilde
Nature is an admirable schoolmistress. -- Henry David Thoreau
Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable. -- Morton Blackwell
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable. -- Blaise Pascal
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. -- Andre Gide
The best companion and helper is admirable morals. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable. -- Michael Lewis
5. You feel he has a lot of admirable qualities. -- Bisco Hatori
It is at night that faith in light is admirable. -- Edmond Rostand
...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. -- Seneca the Younger
Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method. -- Reginald Fessenden
There are so many things admirable people do not understand. -- William Stafford
People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable. -- Zac Posen
Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs -- Edgar Allan Poe
Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality! -- W.O. Makora
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. -- John W. Gardner
The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them. -- Dale Ahlquist
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers. -- Man Ray
I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional -- Matthew Gray Gubler
Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable. -- Noam Chomsky
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. -- Rebecca West
It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
Someone who plays hard every shift, it's pretty admirable for a young guy. -- Marty Turco
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. -- Lord Chesterfield
The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's, -- Taylor Caldwell
Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics. -- Woodrow Wilson
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it. -- Agatha Christie
Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working. -- John C. Maxwell
My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable. -- Alexander Smith
If a leader demonstrates competency, genuine concern for others, and admirable character, people will follow. -- Richard Chase
He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. -- William Godwin
Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. -- Walter J. Phillips
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. -- Rex Stout
There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable. -- Joe R. Lansdale
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. -- Oscar Wilde
A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster. -- Henry George
I always think it's far more admirable to confuse people than it is to reassure them. -- Will Sheff
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance -- Margery Allingham
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people. -- Jon Voight
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way. -- Jock Sturges
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. -- Jacques Maritain
Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect. -- Dante Alighieri
Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people. -- Mariane Pearl
I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks. -- Shane Black
Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating. -- Oscar Wilde
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. -- Cecil B. DeMille
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. -- Jonathan Sacks
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. -- Andre Breton
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. -- W. H. Auden
Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence. -- Edward Gibbon
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards. -- Martha Stewart
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. -- Felix Frankfurter
McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales. -- Jim Cantalupo
The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification. -- Patrick David Wall
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them. -- Michael Palin
To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard. -- Wes Fesler
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. -- Socrates
I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable. -- Anthony Bourdain
In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America. -- Buzz Aldrin
So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think. -- David Krumholtz
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. -- Tacitus
God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes. -- Robert Boyle
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 -- Michael Josephson
To move forth and grab your destiny is admirable. To shape your own future with the strength in your fist is beyond that. -- S.A. Bouraleh
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. -- Mortimer Adler
To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine. -- Christopher Jones
Our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable as it is dangerous ... our impatience to better the lot of our fellows. -- Karl Popper
Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue. -- Robert Wright
Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait. -- Hattie McDaniel
The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect. It's not admirable to want love, it just is. -- Rachel Kushner
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait -- Hattie McDaniel
The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning. -- Brendan Gill
I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower. -- Stephen Ambrose
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable. -- James F. Cooper
I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos. -- Martha Stewart

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