Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Roy Hodgson's appetite to want to work at the age of 75 is admirable. Roy was my manager at Blackburn in 1997-98… — Chris Sutton Copy Share Image
Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea… — Jose Marti 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
I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
To me there is nothing so admirable as a passionate love-bond between two human begins. Sam loves Frodo and wants to protect… — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
Such loyalty is admirable, of course,” said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritation with difficulty, “but Dumbledore is gone, Harry.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
NDCC is an admirable job of amassing information to prove that communism is socialism and socialism (a plot to enslave the world)… — Dan Smoot Copy Share Image
Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this… — Hattie McDaniel Copy Share Image
We need to really start taking care of each other and not profiting off of each other's miseries. That shouldn't be our… — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem… — will.i.am 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
War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I love soccer, love tennis... Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has… — Virat Kohli Copy Share Image
Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
A lot of women seem to have a similar attitude, - 'I'm not a feminist' - and it gets wearying. What's wrong… — Mary Stott Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue.… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature -… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
L'univers?je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a' une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
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