Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of…

Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

— Oscar Wilde

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Worthy is the one who remembers to thank the Lord for all His blessings; but admirable is the one who still thank God in…

— Ritu Ghatourey

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the…

— William Penn

What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable…

— Ted Dekker

Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for example, particularly…

— Richard Rodriguez

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I didn't get a chance to meet Glen [Beck] for this movie. I did meet him a few years ago, coincidentally, before any of…

— Zachary Quinto

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

— Matthew Gray Gubler

Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably a natural…

— Richard Dawkins

N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and…

— Eric Hobsbawm

There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior to mere…

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In…

— W. Somerset Maugham