Admire Quotes

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.

I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever afford it, I'd be wearing that all the time! I like to admire from afar.

I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.

When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.

When you ask me who I look up to and who I can admire for their style right now, I have to choose from people that represent what I represent stylistically.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

You need somebody you respect and admire to back you always.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

It's great to admire other people's fashion choices, but I don't think you should idolise anyone.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.

There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most

What I admire most are people who put themselves directly on the line.

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.