Admire Quotes - Page 16

• I always admire people who have passion.

  Lesley Nicol

  Passion, People

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• I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Christian, Religious

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• A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.

  Allegra Versace

  Sexy, People, Body

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• I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Commitment, Somewhere Else, People

  Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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• I admire fashion and I respect it greatly, but I don't necessarily follow trends. I never really have. I just wear what I like to wear. I really like colors, and there are some things I wear and don't care what anybody says about it being in style or not. I wear it anyway.

  Condola Rashad

  Fashion, Color, Style

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• I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Courage, Military, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1865). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.96

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• All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

  Horace

  Men, Delight, Objects

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• You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

  Martial

  Thinking, Pay, Praise

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.384

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• Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Country, Party, Men

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• Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Role Models, Envy, Emulation

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• Tell men that God is love; that right is right, and wrong, wrong; let them cease to admire philanthropy, and begin to love men; cease to pant for heaven, and begin to love God; then the spirit of liberty begins.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Men, Heaven, Liberty

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.299

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• [On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Party

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• What we admire we praise; and when we praise,
  Advance it into notice, that its worth
  Acknowledged, others may admire it too.

  William Cowper

  May, Praise

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.26

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• We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.

  Marge Piercy

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Marge Piercy (2016). “The Longings of Women: A Novel”, p.351, Open Road Media

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• All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Selfish, Men, Vanity

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• I really admire the job that not just coach Belichick has done but that Robert Kraft and his family have done, and the decisions that they made to let Bill do what he's capable of doing. I think it's a great illustration of a way to structure an NFL organization when you let the coach really run the thing.

  Pete Carroll

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire.

  Conor Oberst

  Art, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore the vast multitude of stars which diversify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together; but when any change happens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the heavens.

  Saint Basil

  Stars, Eye, Views

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• your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Music, Play, Sweat

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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• We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.

  Maureen Dowd

  Glasses, People, Noses

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• Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.

  Jane Porter

  Hands, Long, Grace

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.104

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• Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

  Jane Porter

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ideas

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.84

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• This earth is my sister; I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am. How we admire this strength in each other, all that we have lost, all that we have suffered, all that we know: We are stunned by this beauty, and I do not forget: what she is to me, what I am to her.

  Susan Griffin

  Grace, Earth, Forget

  Susan Griffin (2015). “Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.

  Elissa Schappell

  Men, Compassion, Ghost Stories

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• Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Art, Men, Feelings

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