Admire Quotes
1117 quotes by 936 authors
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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
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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
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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
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
— Richard Bach
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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
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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
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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
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
— David Bowie
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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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
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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
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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
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I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.
— Nicolas Cage
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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
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I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.
— Eric Cantona
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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
— Sherman Alexie
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Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
— Dale Carnegie
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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
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I certainly admire people who do things.
— Raymond Chandler
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