Quotes About Admirable

Epictetus, for example, asks us to think of the deity as the playwright who assigns us roles. Our business in life is to play admirably the role assigned to us.

Wonder Woman is such an amazing character.

I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.

I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.

Naturalmente, la comparación de lo ocurrido a Sartre en este libro con lo que le ocurrió a Flaubert en el último que escribió es obligatoria. ¿Cabe un parecido mayor, un fracaso tan igualmente admirable y por razones tan idénticas como el de L'Idiot de la famille y Bouvard et Pécuchet? Ambas son tentativas imposibles, empresas destinadas a fracasar porque ambas se habían fijado de antemano una meta inalcanzable, estaban

As far as Matthew Arnold was concerned, Hellenes and Hebrews were oil and water.1 Both were 'august' and, in their respective ways, 'admirable', but they didn't mix. Greeks pursued self-realisation; Jews struggled at self-conquest. 'Be obedient' was the sovereign command of Judaism; 'be true to your nature' was what mattered to the Hellene.

tik?jim? tur?ti - pavyd?tina dalia, net jei niekas apie tai nežinot?. (7-8)

We were made to find our deepest pleasure in admiring what is infinitely admirable, that is, the glory of God. The glory of God is not the psychological projection of human longing onto reality. On the contrary, inconsolable human longing is the evidence that we were made for God's glory.

praiseworthy and should be exercised by all" (#292).

The possibility has occurred to me that the proper condition of man, which is to say that condition in which he is most admirable, may not be that prosperity, peace, and harmony which I labored to give to Rome." He has founded his empire, in other words, on a misconception.

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

There is no one quality gives so much dignity to a character, as consistency of conduct. Even if a man's pursuits be wrong and unjustifiable, yet if they are prosecuted with steadiness and vigor, we cannot withhold our admiration.

I really enjoy working with people who have come into this industry for what I think are really admirable reasons. People who really want to tell brilliant stories and do it in the most effective way possible.

Once, under the wise rule of the Senate and the protection of the Jedi Knights, the Republic throve and grew. But as often happens when wealth and power pass beyond the admirable and attain the awesome, then appear those evil ones who have greed to match.

Evelyn says that they are all of them truly good and saintly! Indeed, he described Patience to me as an angel! Well, dearest, I wouldn't for a moment deny that that is – is most admirable, but I find saintly persons excessively uncomfortable, and I cannot live with an angel!

My dad is an amazing human being. He - just a hard worker. Just that thing you think about with, like, just anyone who comes this country - that's my dad. He can do anything. Not just at work - comes home, he can cook, he can clean, fix the toilet, fix the car. He learned all these jobs just so he'd never have to pay another man.

We always had a lot of admiration for feminists who were out there trying to change things for the better for women, who were trying to find equality in the workplace and at home.

The people I admire are Tim Buckley and John Martyn - singers that grew into themselves and were honest. John Martyn is one of the great soul singers because soul is not a genre; it's a feeling.

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

Altogether, there was an air of health and easy power about her -- as if she could no more help being robust, I thought with a trace of admiration, than a beautiful woman could help good looks.

What a stupid, reckless, idiotic, ridiculous damn thing to do! I haven't the words to express my admiration.

Speaking professionally, it was admirably done. -John H. Watson- -The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes-

Dagny, why is it that most women would never admit that, but you do?" "Because they're never sure that they ought to be wanted. I am." "I do admire self-confidence." "Self-confidence was only one part of what I said, Hank." "What's the whole?" "Confidence of my value—and yours.

I've no intention of trying to dissuade you. I'll only say one thing: in an inhuman situation you're trying to behave like a human being. That may be admirable, but it's also futile. Though in fact I'm not even sure it's admirable—I'm not sure something foolish can also be admired.