It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Someone who plays hard every shift, it's pretty admirable for a young guy. — Marty Turco Copy Share Image
To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is… — Christopher Jones Copy Share Image
We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable. — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“He managed to smile while eating, which was an astonishing feat, and not admirable.” — Douglas Anthony Cooper Copy Share Image
He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour. — William Godwin 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
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black… — Gabriel Faure Copy Share Image
Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite… — Jack McDevitt 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
[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true… — N.D. Wilson 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
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
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
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
O admirable Mother of God! How many sins have I committed for which thou hast obtained pardon for me, and how many… — John Eudes Copy Share Image
The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“For the admirable gift of himself, and for the magnificent service he renders humanity, what reward does our society offer the scientist?… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
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