Admire Quotes
1117 Admire quotes by 918 unique authors
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For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets…
— Franz Grillparzer
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Uribe and I have very good relations. I owe him loyalty, I admire him, he did great things for our country, and I think that…
— Juan Manuel Santos
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You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.
— Karen Joy Fowler
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Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act…
— Ada Louise Huxtable
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Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred,…
— M. Scott Peck
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Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the…
— A. C. Benson
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing…
— Viktor Korchnoi
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If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person…
— Alexander Isley
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I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In…
— Henry Moore
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But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies:…
— James Salter
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In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God…
— Andrew Greeley
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When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with…
— Norman MacCaig
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It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
— Cass Gilbert
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our…
— Benjamin Franklin
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From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire.…
— John Milton
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The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
— Jeffery Deaver
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Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of…
— Sivananda
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Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external…
— Nathaniel Branden
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The church seeks to help form people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive world, risk being…
— John Howard Yoder
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Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he…
— Anthony Quinn
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Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I look at my sons' little faces, and I want to be their superhero. I don't want them to have to look outside to a…
— Lashinda Demus
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Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
— Ben Bova
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