quotes about Admire
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Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.
-- Abel Bonnard -
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
-- Agnes RepplierSource : Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”
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If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.
-- Alan Shearer -
There are more things to admire in men then to despise.
-- Albert Camus -
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I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
-- Alfred Russel WallaceSource : Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso
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The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.
-- Anderson Cooper -
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
-- Andrew MotionSource : "Laureate and hardy". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2002.
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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
-- Ann Beattie -
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Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure
-- Anne Fadiman -
I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.
-- Anthony Hope -
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.
-- Ava DuVernay -
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
-- Ayrton SennaSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'
-- B. F. Skinner -
I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.
-- Bethenny Frankel -
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
-- BoethiusSource : Boethius (1999). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.52, OUP Oxford
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We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
-- Colum McCannSource : Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic: A Novel”, p.281, Random House
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Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
-- Cullen Hightower -
I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
-- Dalia Mogahed -
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It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.
-- David Letterman -
Let's stop for a moment to admire the rotating pies.
-- David Letterman -
I just admire a funny, confident, sassy woman and hopefully I'm that person.
-- Denise Bidot -
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
-- E. B. WhiteSource : E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.209, Cornell University Press
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
-- E. M. Forster -
Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
-- Earl Tupper -
Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.187
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You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
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The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!
-- Elisha Cuthbert -
Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?
-- Elvis Presley -
What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.
-- Erik Naggum -
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
-- F. H. Bradley -
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
We always like those who admire us.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
-- Frank Shorter -
I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.
-- Fred Willard -
I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
-- Gene TierneySource : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
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A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
-- George Jean Nathan -
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The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.
-- Greg Kinnear -
The Pathan people of Waziristan are proud people who I greatly admire.
-- Greg Mortenson -
In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
-- Gustav Mahler -
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I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.
-- Hayley Mills -
I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.
-- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -
You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.
-- Henri MichauxSource : Henri Michaux, Robin Magowan (2001). “Ecuador”, p.59, Northwestern University Press
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Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
-- Hesiod -
I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient
-- Holly HunterSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
-- Horace -
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Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.
-- Jack McDevitt -
I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal -
It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.
-- James M. Barrie -
I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.
-- Jean-Dominique BaubySource : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.55, Knopf Group E-Books
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I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.
-- Jenny Eclair -
For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man.
-- Jeremiah SeedSource : Jeremiah Seed (1763). “Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London”, p.217
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I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.
-- Jessica Hahn -
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That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.
-- John Gray -
Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
-- John Milton -
Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?
-- Joseph Addison -
I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.
-- Judd Apatow -
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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
-- Kabir -
You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.
-- Karen Joy Fowler -
It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human.
-- Kate Jacobs -
I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
-- Katherine Dunham -
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The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
-- Ken Livingstone -
I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.
-- Kevin McCloud -
A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
-- Kitty Kelley -
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I admire my father greatly.
-- Kojo AnnanSource : "Annan: 'Hell no,' I won't go" by Richard Roth and Phil Hirschkorn, www.cnn.com. March 30, 2005.
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I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.
-- Lavrenti Lopes -
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.
-- Lin YutangSource : Yutang Lin (1962). “The pleasures of a nonconformist”
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I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.
-- Lindsay Lohan -
It`s always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer.
-- Lizz Winstead -
I couldn't help but see; I wasn't blind. I couldn't help but admire; I wasn't dead
-- Lori HandelandSource : Lori Handeland (2014). “Rising Moon”, p.29, Lori Handeland
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
-- LucretiusSource : Lucretius (2007). “The Nature of Things”, p.96, Penguin UK
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The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne
-- Madame Roland -
Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
-- Mandy Moore -
I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.
-- Marcel Duchamp -
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I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.
-- Mario Monti -
Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.
-- Mark Rydell -
Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.
-- Mark Twain -
I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
-- Martha Stewart -
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I do not admire greatness that has no substance.
-- Mary Balogh -
Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
-- Max Beerbohm -
The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most
-- Michelle Kwan -
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We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.
-- Mike Birbiglia -
The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.
-- Mike Greenberg -
You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov -
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I admire American ideas.
-- Mikhail SaakashviliSource : "Georgia Protests: HuffPost Blogger Feet On The Ground" by Jirair Ratevosian and Amy Hagopian, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2009.
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I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.
-- Missy Peregrym -
I think Sarah Palin is amazing. I totally admire her.
-- Nadine Dorries -