#admirable

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. ↗

— Jose Marti

#avails #even #gives #glory #great

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families. ↗

— Michael Enzi

#difference #faith #families #make #make a difference

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#memory #nothing #politics #short #short memory

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#always #clark #easy #eisenhower #fair

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. ↗

— James Buchan

#admirable #british #features #foreign #novelists

McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#admirable #almost #being #consistent #deliver

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#demands #high #high price #hollywood #most

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate. ↗

— Will Oldham

#admirable #being #functional #little #pirate

People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable. ↗

— Zac Posen

#devote #life #people #style #themselves

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#disadvantages #fortitude #millionaires #more #nothing