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Quotes About Admirable

For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor.
~ Algernon Blackwood
The best companion and helper is admirable morals.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
In this admirable country in which a spring without equal covers it with flowers and its light, men are suffering hunger and demanding justice. Albert Camus, 1958
~ Alistair Horne
It's not an easy task, believe me. How the hell do you replace Frank Sinatra? There's no way anybody can do that. But as far as I'm concerned, if there is music to be made and I have to wear somebody else's clothes, I can't think of anybody's I'd rather wear.
~ Frank Sinatra Jr.
Activism is a very admirable way to create change, but it has to go hand in hand with personal contact with the people with whom we have opposing points of view; without that, there will never be any movement.
~ Michael Feinstein
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
~ Francis Collins
I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.
~ Jane Pauley
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
Perfection is an admirable thing to strive for. But so is knowing when to stop.
~ Richelle Mead
And that was the soft spot which destroyed what was in many ways an admirable culture. The junior hoodlums who roamed their streets were symptoms of a greater sickness; their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights' . . . and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Susan said. "Kindness is not dangerous. You have found a way to work and live which allows you to integrate the violence and the compassion. If you had no impulse to violence, your compassion wouldn't be so admirable. If you had no compassion, your violence would be intolerable. You understand what I'm saying?
~ Robert B. Parker
He's tempted to beat your location out of me. But you asked him to keep me safe.— I thought you couldn't read Dee-vee-oh well. —Doesn't take a Fool to foresee this! Jack Deveaux talks with fists.— You sound almost admiring. —Jack is . . . unexpected.— Unexpected? That was something for a psychic to say. Even I didn't know what Jack would do if his back was against the wall.
~ Kresley Cole
Our bodies are temples of the Lord. We should earn respect and admiration for our hearts, not for showing skin to look sexy.
~ Carrie Prejean
Good men are like good hairdressers. Hard as hell to find.
~ Zane
Don't be a leader to dictate, but be a person whom everyone wants to emulate and follow.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.
~ Emma Forrest
At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.
~ Adepero Oduye
I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Good Samaritans: Truth, justice and the American way–for them it wasn't only a comic book code; it was a way of life. it was admirable, courageous, and inconvenient as shit. -Stefan, CHIMERA
~ Rob Thurman
CHERFUL IN ALL WEATHERS, NEVER SHERKED A TASK, SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR.
~ Larry McMurtry
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
~ Albert Einstein
I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.
~ C.P. Snow
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?
~ Albert Einstein