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.

Women are so enigmatical - some in everything - all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that

I get to my feet when Chelsea fans sing 'Stand up if you hate Man U'. But though I hate them, I have to admire them too.

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.

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

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

When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

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

I think the thing that I admire about Rick Santorum is that he hasn't backed down or apologized one bit for his personal religious views, for standing up for social conservative values.

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

I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.

I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren't many teenagers on the golf tour.

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

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

I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.

I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread a text, you teach yourself something about craft.

All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

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.

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

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

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in my work, but I need a destination.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

I admire people who do things that are interesting to them, who don't have a strategy or a master plan or have a brand - I don't care about any of those things.

It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately attracted to after all this time.

I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate.

Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.

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.

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

Schedule in rest in any pursuit. There’s always another peak, but look back and admire the view for a moment. You have to actually practice that - it’s a balance.

Let's stop for a moment to admire the rotating pies.

We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.

But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon.

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

Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.