“To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I don't live for all the pats on the back and the adulation. I let my boxing do the talking. — Josh Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the… — Vincenzo Galilei Copy Share Image
If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling… — Genie Francis Copy Share Image
To criticize one's country is to do it a service… Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations… — Glenn McGrath Copy Share Image
The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the… — George Will Copy Share Image
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Giving consistent effort in the little things in day-to-day life leads to true greatness. Specifically, it is the thousands of little deeds… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Celebrities were quick to understand that paparazzi could make icons of them. The more a star is followed and admired, the greater… — Ron Galella Copy Share Image
Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it… — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents —… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
It's important to know where you've come from so that you can know where you're going. I probably chose my profession because… — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for… — William James Copy Share Image
I think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval,… — Nicholas Pileggi Copy Share Image
The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I have a very great respect for Americans, and having been a correspondent in this country, and I believe that Americans are… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“The thespian is an impostor, but the paying crowd colludes fully in the fraud as they seek to leave real problems behind… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing down hitters and garnering… — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“While adulation has its moments and can be like a bath in warm water after coming in from a snowstorm, the psychic… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
“Era solamente un animo adulatore, di quelli che non sopportano di essere antipatici a qualcuno, neppure a quelli che detestano, aspirano a… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
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