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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
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
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
— George Will
People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I wantto vomit - and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea — Jean-Paul Sartre
What is most admirable about firefighters, is there reliability. When they are called, they come
— Dennis Smith
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
The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them.
— Dale Ahlquist
My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one.
— Bette Greene
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
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
— Albert Camus
Only those who slavishly worship success can think that effectiveness is admirable without regard to what is effected.
— Bertrand Russell
Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.
— William Penn
The admirable is inexplicable.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.
— Elizabeth Peters
In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
— Jock Sturges
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
There are so many things admirable people do not understand.
— William Stafford
Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.
— Martha Stewart
'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic.
— Michael Dirda
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
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
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
— Cecil B. DeMille
Admirable is excellent.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
— Delmore Schwartz
I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional
— Matthew Gray Gubler
A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
— Nicholaa Spencer
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
In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait that; in a spaniel. Or a whore.
— Michael Dobbs
Be affable.Be adaptable.
Be approachable.
Be admirable. — Matshona Dhliwayo
But there was something so admirable about her innocence that he would not insult her by tarnishing it.
— Eve Edwards
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
Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.
— Woodrow Wilson
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
Where human beings so admirable in their natural state?
— Lauren McLaughlin
5. You feel he has a lot of admirable qualities.
— Bisco Hatori