Admire Quotes

1117 Admire quotes by 918 unique authors

Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away. — Annie Dillard
You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you… — Jane Austen
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves… — Sigmund Freud
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw
Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did. — Jane Austen
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by… — Virginia Woolf
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed. — J.R.R. Tolkien
i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people — Marge Piercy
No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I… — Vladimir Nabokov
Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you… — George Eliot
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers… — Ann Brashares
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us,… — Marcel Proust
I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them. — E. M. Forster
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all. — Elwyn Brooks White
The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct — Joyce Carol Oates
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the… — Jonathan Edwards
Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken… — William Carlos Williams
I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of… — Graham Greene
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it — Oscar Wilde
I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in… — Bertrand Russell
Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good,… — John Adams
I shall never again admire a merely brave man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content… — Lin Yutang

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