Admiring Quotes - Page 3

• With all of the visual distraction constantly inundating us in the form of our devices and screens, I really derive a great deal of pleasure from watching the sun rise and set, admiring clouds as they change shape across the sky, watching tree leaves and blossoms undulate in the breeze....these treats foment an ocular-cleansing refreshment to my way of thinking.

  Nick Offerman

  Thinking, Clouds, Sky

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 4, 2014.

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• What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.

  Tom Ford

  Pride, Vanity, Different

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• We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Humility, Way, Spirit

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• Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Women, Sky, Mind

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most Ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the first cause, but which we call our Father which art in heaven.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Father, Heaven

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• To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

  Carolyn Wells

  Apology, Pride, Fire

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Mind, Wish

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• I admire your capacity for admiring.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Capacity, Admire

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• I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.

  Alan Moore

  Stars, Names, Space

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black shadows, his shirt smeared with dried blood and filthy mud... "Admiring yourself?" The Inquisitor's voice cut through his reverie. "You won't look so pretty when the Clave gets through with you." "You do seem obsessed with my look...Could it be that you're attracted to me?" "Don't be revolting...You could be my son.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Eye, Son

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• In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw the books anew, from without rather than from within, and was reminded of how beautiful they were simply as objects. The geometrical wonder of them all, each book on its own and all the books together, row upon row, the infinite patterns and possibilities they presented. They were truly lovely.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Love, Beautiful, Book

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• Worship is to feel in the heart . . . it is an attitude and a state of mind. It is a sustained act, subject to varying degrees of intensity and perfection . . . Real worship is, among other things, a feeling about the Lord our God . . . It is in our hearts. And we must be willing to express it in an appropriate manner. If we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Attitude, Real, Humility

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• Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Christianity, Graves, Agnosticism

  1935 Religion and Literature.

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• In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Art, Children, Fun

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• The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

  Max Euwe

  Titles, Machines, Chess

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• Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.

  Florence King

  Respect, Men, Experts

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.50, Macmillan

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• I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has committed to us the important task of proving by example that a government, if organized in all its parts on the Representative principle unadulterated by the infusion of spurious elements, if founded, not in the fears & follies of man, but on his reason, on his sense of right, on the predominance of the social over his dissocial passions, may be so free as to restrain him in no moral right, and so firm as to protect him from every moral wrong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Passion, Men

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• Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.

  Lewis Howard Latimer

  Success, Pride, Science

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• We are not attracted to people because they are virtuous. In fact, there's something a little creepy about people who are too good. There is a big draw to people who are successful at breaking the rules. That means we end up admiring a lot of people that we think we shouldn't.

  Lionel Shriver

  Mean, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up always admiring business owners. I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product.

  Dom Kennedy

  Decision, Decision Making

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Gentleman, Age, World

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That Old Birds are not to be Caught with Chaff", 1846.

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• Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired.

  Paul Ormerod

  Social Values, Cities, United States

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• I used to sit in the studio with a copy of the (Saturday Evening) Post laid across my knees ... And then I'd conjure up a picture of myself as a famous illustrator and gloat over it, putting myself in various happy situations, surrounded by admiring females, deferred to by office flunkies at the magazines, wined and dined by the editor.

  Norman Rockwell

  Editors, Office, Magazines

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• As long as we remain self-reflective and keep looking at who and what we are, as long as we keep our analysis that way, then there's no freedom. We're just trying clothes on in front of a mirror and admiring them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mirrors, Self

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• There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Liars, Lying, Helping

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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