Admires Quotes

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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in… — Lord Chesterfield
The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul as if he had but… — Charles Spurgeon
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to… — Jean de la Bruyere
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. — Alexander Pope
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain… — Sigmund Freud
Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men. — Lucullus
History admires the wise, but elevates the brave. — Edmund Morris
Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink.… — Nikki Sixx
Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting - than the bland… — John Derbyshire
No animal admires another animal. — Blaise Pascal
Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship… — William J. Clinton
If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better… — Robert Greene
What each one honors before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God. — Origen
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person. — Scott Lynch
You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it. — Karen Joy Fowler
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
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
What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence. — Oscar Wilde

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