Admire Quotes

I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.

Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.

The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.

You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Sometimes when you're treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined. I admire that kind of strength. People who have it take a stand and put their blood and soul into what they believe.

There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.

think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God

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.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things

I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.

Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

When I really love a movie, I don't want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Many admire, few know.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

I admire anyone who isn't afraid to take risks and try out things that aren't usually looked at as "normal."

For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

Avoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.