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Feeble and timid minds ... consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
— Edward Gibbon
Come now, my dear fellow. Expertise is none the less admirable for being of an unsavoury variety.
— Lyndsay Faye
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
— Blaise Pascal
A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
— Jacques Maritain
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
His persistance was admirable as it was annoying
— Jamie McGuire
The charming grass, elegant water, fascinating winds, admirable rocks and delicate sands are never alone.
— Delano Johnson
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
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
People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I wantto vomit - and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea — Jean-Paul Sartre
Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.
— Alexandra Robbins
For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor.
— Algernon Blackwood
I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman [Mussolini].
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people.
— Jon Voight
God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
— Robert Boyle
Solidarity was admirable; loyalty was the person standing next to you when the devil came to call.
— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.
— Reginald Fessenden
You have to really want to be a Navy SEAL. The passion you need to endure the rigors of training, to become the best of the best ... It's admirable.
— Suzanne Brockmann
What we so admire and call "single minded dedication" was really "obsessive self-involvement". What in that exactly is admirable?
— Harlan Coben
Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.
— Shinichi Suzuki
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought ... I thought ... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.
— Michael Palin
Being sensitive and kind are admirable pursuits ... and so are knowing when you're being taking advantage of and simply walking away.
— Charles F. Glassman
My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one.
— Bette Greene
Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
— Walter J. Phillips
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
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
— Andre Breton
Nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
— Seneca The Younger
Life is not always fun but in the scheme of things , it becomes more reliable , admirable , dependable and fashionable as one progresses daily
— Osunsakin Adewale
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.
— Richard Rorty
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.
— Lemony Snicket
You're making an admirable go of it, but in the end, loyalty is about taking aside. — Becca Fitzpatrick
Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.
— John C. Maxwell
That's a very admirable quality in a wife. The ability to admit she is in the wrong.
— Lindsay Armstrong
Gerald Ford, one of the most admirable presidents of our time, once observed that if Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave. With
— David McCullough
Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.
— Henry David Thoreau
There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.
— Joe R. Lansdale
Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.
— Woodrow Wilson
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
Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.
— Martha Stewart
We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
— Francis Collins
The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification.
— Patrick David Wall
There are so many things admirable people do not understand.
— William Stafford
Lovely is admirable.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable.
— Morton Blackwell
Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.
— Mariane Pearl
The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's,
— Taylor Caldwell
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
Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.
— William Penn
His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait that; in a spaniel. Or a whore.
— Michael Dobbs
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
— Jock Sturges
5. You feel he has a lot of admirable qualities.
— Bisco Hatori
Where human beings so admirable in their natural state?
— Lauren McLaughlin
Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.
— Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
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
Only those who slavishly worship success can think that effectiveness is admirable without regard to what is effected.
— Bertrand Russell
But there was something so admirable about her innocence that he would not insult her by tarnishing it.
— Eve Edwards
Be affable.Be adaptable.
Be approachable.
Be admirable. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
— Delmore Schwartz
In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
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.
— Philip Sidney
A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
— Nicholaa Spencer
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
— Cecil B. DeMille
The best companion and helper is admirable morals.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Admirable is excellent.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.
— Anthony Bourdain
He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.
— William Godwin
Lonely you linger in a league above poetry.
— Mie Hansson
I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional
— Matthew Gray Gubler
I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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
Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.
— Oscar Wilde
Imagination, thought, may be admirable mechanisms but they can also be inert. Suffering alone sets them going.
— Marcel Proust
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
— Albert Camus
In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.
— Elizabeth Peters
The admirable is inexplicable.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
