Admirable Quotes

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

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.

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

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.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

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.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

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.

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

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.

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

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.

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

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

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.