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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

What is so admirable in being ruled by a need for peace of mind ? — John N. Gray

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

I always think it's far more admirable to confuse people than it is to reassure them. — Will Sheff

People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit - and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea — Jean-Paul Sartre

An admirable quality of parenthood is the ability to respect your kid's privacy. — Susane Colasanti

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

To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard. — Wes Fesler

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

(Its) admirable words can purchase honour; (its) admirable deeds can raise their performer above others. — Lao-Tzu

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

Someone who plays hard every shift, it's pretty admirable for a young guy. — Marty Turco

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

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 a
side. — 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

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. — Andre Gide

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

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. — Rex Stout

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks. — Shane Black

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. — Harry Hamlin

Lovely is admirable. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. — Andre Gide

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

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

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." — Gore Vidal

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. — John Calvin

Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People. — William Penn

My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable. — Alexander Smith

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife ... — Homer

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

Perfection is an admirable thing to strive for. But so is knowing when to stop. — Richelle Mead

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

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable. — Noam Chomsky

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

People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable. — Zac Posen

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

Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist's ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals. — Sam Inglis