Quotes About Admirable

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?

Chaque individu doit mener sa vie de manière à ce que les autres puissent la respecter et l'admirer.

Change the world! In Pontevin's view, what a monstrous goal! Not because the world is so admirable as it is but because any change leads inevitably to something worse.

Siempre he admirado a los creyentes. Pensaba que estaban dotados de un don especial de percepción ultra sensorial del que yo carecía. Algo así como los videntes. Pero mi hijo me demuestra que creer realidad muy fácil. Cuando estaba en apuros, le echaron una mano los católicos y de pronto apareció la fe. Es posible que haya decidido creer por agradecimiento. Las decisiones de los hombres son muy simples

Cambiar el mundo! ¡Qué monstruoso propósito para Pontevin! No porque el mundo sea admirable tal como está, sino porque cuqlquier cambio conduce inevitablemente a lo peor.

You heard what Declan said about you," Cole realized. Liam gave a little shrug. "At least when he talks behind my back, he sticks to the same things he says to my face. It's actually kind of admirable.

Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Kate is going to come back, she is going to be super-strong again. Everybody is going to want her again because she is that kind of person. She is very professional and beautiful and she is going to be around forever.

Kevin McCarthy is a good man.

while I felt that the Marxist attitude towards their theory was not at all admirable but was typically dogmatic and had all these properties which the Marxists usually said were characteristic of the churches. So I realized fairly early that Marxism was more of a church than of a science.

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.

We have been feeling for some time that Le Chiffre is getting into deep water. In nearly all respects he is an admirable agent of the U.S.S.R., but his gross physical habits and predilections are an Achilles heel of which we have been able to take advantage from time to time and one of his mistresses is a Eurasian (No. 1860) controlled by Station F., who has recently been able to obtain insight into his private affairs.

I love princesses. And I think Cinderella is very strong. She's a young woman thinking outside of her environment, outside of her current situation, and she is choosing to believe that all is possible for her. And I think that is so admirable.

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.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.

I admire survivors. It is why I want Khaster Leckery too." "You are optimistic," Tayven said. "He was never much of a survivor. Why are you so interested in him?" Maycarpe leaned forward in his seat. "Don't you know why? Didn't you sense it yourself?" Tayven was silent for a moment. "I doubt you and I sense the same things." Maycarpe made an expansive gesture. "Find him, Tayven.

What killed him was his loyalty to people who, when their time came, betrayed him. Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

My father knew from the start what was going to happen,' Clara explained. 'He stayed close to his friends because he felt it was his duty. What killed him was his loyalty to people who, when their time came, betrayed him. Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows'. Phoenix paperback, 2005, p.19

Reba is very, very close to everyone around her. She's a classy lady.

What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.

It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable of men in society, never to contradict anybody.