Admirable Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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