For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have...… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in… — Pierre Curie Copy Share Image
It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late… — William Bartram Copy Share Image
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