Admired Quotes

401 Admired quotes by 366 unique authors

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly… — Louisa May Alcott
I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You — Napoleon Bonaparte
I've always admired people who are over-prepared. — Randy Pausch
Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired… — Anthony de Mello
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this… — Virginia Woolf
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. — Bertrand Russell
Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it. — Witold Gombrowicz
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. — Terry Pratchett
I was a beautiful vampire princess loved, worshiped and admired by all. I lived in a luxurious gothic castle and I have no idea how… — Alyson Noel
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear! — Jules Verne
I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me,… — Soren Kierkegaard
He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of… — Geraldine McCaughrean
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick… — Eve Ensler
Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you… — Dorothy Parker
There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the… — Kathryn Stockett
He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either. — Garrison Keillor
I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating. — Jim Butcher
He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you… — Jonathan Safran Foer
If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is… — Emile M. Cioran
Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere. — Seamus Heaney
The mishandling of food and equipment with panache was always admired; to some extent, this remains true to this day. Butchers still slap down prime… — Anthony Bourdain
Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after Will. He admired his skill with a sword and… — John Flanagan
Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything she didn't enjoy… — Anne Bishop
He said he "admired our courage" but didn't want to see us do anything to "damage our promising futures." He felt "proud as an American"… — Jordan Sonnenblick

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