Top 33 Quotes About Estimable
#1. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor.
Kurt Vonnegut
#2. His own parents, the estimable Gilchrists, a couple who had taken the 'till death' part of their own wedding vows so seriously he wouldn't be surprised if they one day throttled one another, had naturally wangled the next best seat in the house: row two, on the aisle.
Ally Blake
#3. The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it's our commitment to something beyond ourselves that is truly estimable to ourself and others.
Marianne Williamson
#5. Exceptional estimable, good, nice, dear people they all were but they all, unluckily, kept asking me about the new novel, and that was excrutiating.
Robert Walser
#6. Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.
Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles
#7. If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.
Jean De La Bruyere
#8. But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
Voltaire
#9. No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American will describe as noble and estimable ambition that our medieval ancestors would have called base cupidity.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#10. If science produces no better fruits than tyranny ... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.
Thomas Jefferson
#11. If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.
Joseph Joubert
#12. None but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.
Sophie Von La Roche
#13. The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.
Voltaire
#14. I think ... that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals ...
Corliss Lamont
#15. If you want self-esteem." "Do estimable acts" ~ V, from A Piece of Cake: Memoir
Cupcake Brown
#17. When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. Successful People Find Good within The World. Impossibilities do not limit them. They seek the estimable lesson in every impediment.
Henry Johnson Jr
#19. If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.
Pat Conroy
#20. The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#21. If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.
Jean De La Bruyere
#22. I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
Charles Dickens
#23. The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.
John Abercrombie
#24. Either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.
Henry Miller
#25. I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.
Cassandra Clare
#26. I have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax, allows one more than three.
Salman Rushdie
#27. The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.
Edward L. Bernays
#28. I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?
Nick Cave
#30. Fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason.
Caroline Myss
#31. Professionally, I decided to commit a lot
of my time to California because there
wasn't a whole lot happening for me in New York.
Alice Barrett
#32. Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#33. I've always wanted to skate. If and when I decide to retire ... I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.
Jeremy Abbott
