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
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
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
Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never… — Sugar Ray Leonard 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
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
[John's Adams] description of [Benjamin] Franklin in a letter to [his wife] Abigail in 1775 is laudatory. Only when he experiences all… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me. — Ed Asner 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
For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's… — David Cannadine 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
Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible… — Matthew McConaughey 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
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
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
Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women also want… — Larry L. King 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
I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But… — Martin Jacques 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
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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