Top 43 Admirably Quotes
#1. Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.
Murray Rothbard
#2. I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual.
Charles Spurgeon
#3. There is an air of plausibility which accompanies vulgar reasonings and notions, taken from the beaten circle of ordinary experience, that is admirably suited to the narrow capacities of some, and to the laziness of others.
Edmund Burke
#4. Impart additional strength to our happy Union.?Diversified as are the interests of its various parts, how admirably do they harmonize and blend together!?We have only to make a proper use of the bounties spread before us, to render us prosperous and powerful.
Henry Clay
#5. Either she was admirably at ease anywhere or she suffered from a total lack of discrimination; Liam couldn't decide which.
Anne Tyler
#6. It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.
Henry Fielding
#7. I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has painted it so admirably, but I will try to do it in a different way ...
Claude Monet
#8. Sometimes local, state and federal laws so clearly run afoul of the Constitution that the court must step in and strike them down. In most cases, the court performs this admirably and with great restraint.
Mike DeWine
#9. What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
Benjamin Franklin
#10. Not wise, perhaps, to be rude to the Pope's favorite son, but my viper tongue still required a fool now and then on which to exercise its edges, and Juan Borgia served admirably in place of drunken innkeepers and tavern cheats.
Kate Quinn
#11. You don't talk much, do you?" she blurted out.
"I didn't think there was a need. You seem to be holding up both our ends of the conversation admirably.
Julia Quinn
#12. If everyone does as I've instructed, then things should work out the way they're meant to. (Acheron)
And if we don't? (Talon)
We're all screwed. (Acheron)
Gee, Ash, you're just so damn comforting. (Nick)
I try to be anyway. (Acheron)
You fail admirably. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13. The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.
Susan Davis
#14. Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know in Britain, that takes some time. It is quite tough to lose an empire and Russia lost its empire very rapidly and very admirably, that is to say peacefully, it didn't fight.
Timothy Garton Ash
#15. Some people handle life admirably. And other people really don't. Some get stuck in hideous deforming places and postures and become ever more unbearable versions of themselves.
Vincent Deary
#16. ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the way director Gray uses the conventions of romantic melodrama.
A.O. Scott
#17. Jan could not recall ever seeing a creature more beautiful, though there nagged somewhere at the back of his mind the notion that she ought to have seemed hideous. Why? For she was pure, admirably pure, without a twinge of conscience or shame.
Meredith Ann Pierce
#18. How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?
Albert Einstein
#19. Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows ...
Paul Gauguin
#20. I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation," he said, "and I am sure he will perform it admirably.
J.K. Rowling
#21. there is a natural propriety in the companionship: always to be noted in confidence between a child and a person who has any merit of reality and genuineness: which is admirably pleasant.
Charles Dickens
#22. I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.
John C. Calhoun
#23. It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.
Aristotle.
#24. Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.
Bill Wyman
#25. Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
Ambrose Bierce
#26. Treville understood admirably well the warfare of that period, when, if you did not live at the enemy's expense, you lived at the expense of your compatriots: his soldiers formed a legion of daredevils, undisciplined for anyone else but him.
Alexandre Dumas
#28. Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt Brecht
#29. Why did Meridith have to be so stubborn? Why couldn't she just give him a chance? He knew they'd be amazing together. She'd opened her heart to the kids, admirably so. It couldn't have been easy accepting her father's other children, but she'd done it. Why couldn't she open her heart to him?
Denise Hunter
#30. Of late years, however, since his children were growing up, he had begun to value respectability, and had had himself made a magistrate; a position for which he was admirably fitted, because of his strong conservatism and his contempt for foreigners.
Upton Sinclair
#31. I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.
Margaret Drabble
#32. I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.
Oona Chaplin
#33. Let us call on M. de Monte Cristo; he is admirably adapted to revive one's spirits, because he never interrogates, and in my opinion those who ask no questions are the best comforters.
Alexandre Dumas
#34. History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.
Simon Schama
#36. I believe I've got it covered," Malik said with an admirably straight face and smooth tone. "But I wouldn't mind taking a break before getting to the next round. Grabbing a bite to eat."
Ethan glanced at me, questioning eyebrow arched. Have you infected him?
You're hilarious, I said.
Chloe Neill
#37. Wolfe grunted. "That's admirably specious, but drop it. I give you my word that I haven't the faintest notion of who killed Ellen Tenzer." Cramer eyed him. "Your word?" "Yes, sir.
Rex Stout
#38. Our little ford was almost ready. She was later to be called Auntie after Gertrude Stein's aunt Pauline who always behaved admirably in emergencies and behaved fairly well most times if she was properly flattered.
Gertrude Stein
#39. I shall be satisfied if young people who read this record of our lives and adventures should learn from it how admirably suited is the peaceful, industrious life of a cheerful and united family to the foundation of strong, pure, and manly character.
J.H. Stickney
#40. One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.
P.G. Wodehouse
#41. Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
C.S. Lewis
#42. Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
Plutarch
#43. Speaking professionally, it was admirably done."
-John H. Watson-
-The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes-
Arthur Conan Doyle
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