Admire Quotes

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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness… — Jane Austen
I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it. — Diane Ackerman
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. — Richard Bach
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of… — Mikhail Bakunin
Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life. — Jose Manuel Barroso
The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're… — Dennis C. Blair
I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players. — David Bowie
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. — Christian Nestell Bovee
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. — Charlotte Bronte
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table,… — Geraldine Brooks
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are… — Samuel Butler
A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it… — Herb Caen
I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk. — Nicolas Cage
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… — Michael Caine
I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them. — Eric Cantona
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. — Sherman Alexie
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. — Dale Carnegie
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat… — Graydon Carter
I certainly admire people who do things. — Raymond Chandler

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