Admirable Men Quotes

#1. And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Amy Tan

#2. I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness.

James Watson

#3. Nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

Seneca The Younger

#4. What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

John Ruskin

#5. Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

Primo Levi

#6. Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

Ron Livingston

#7. Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals
for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

H.P. Lovecraft

#8. Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.

H.L. Mencken

#9. The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.

Michel De Montaigne

#10. The bigger the bad guy, the bigger the obstacles that are thrown in your path, the bigger the reward for you. Do

Michael Samuels

#11. People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit - and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

#12. Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of control like a poet.

Michelle Tea

#13. I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die.

Nick Cave

#14. IN OUR SOCIETY, MARCUS, the most admired men are those who build bridges, skyscrapers, and empires. But in reality, the proudest and most admirable are those who manage to build love. Because there is no greater or more difficult undertaking.

Joel Dicker

#15. I try not to worry about things that I can't control.

Paula Radcliffe

#16. Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Mortimer Adler

#17. Maybe he kept the act going as long as possible, till a faked death were the only way to keep my memory of her pure and clean and something worth loving.

Erin Bowman

#18. A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#19. I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned.

Dean Acheson

#20. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

#21. Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

Pierre Curie

#22. Bright men in narrow neckties and short haircuts whose terrible optimism made the sixties such an admirable and disappointing time.

Michael Chabon

#23. Thus the Stoics arrive at their main thesis. Virtue alone is admirable, virtue is absolutely self-sufficient; the good man needs no help from circumstances, neither sickness nor adversity can harm him; he is a king, a god among men.

Marcus Aurelius

#24. Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

Harry Hamlin

#25. Linnaeus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

Henry David Thoreau

#26. Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.

Philip Sidney

#27. You are here having realized the necessity of contending with yourself; then thank everyone who provides an opportunity.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#28. There's nothing left of me, because you have it all.

Rachael Wade

#29. We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their community is as prepared as it could be.

Martin O'Malley