Admires Quotes
75 quotes by 71 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
— Alexander Pope
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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
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Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.
— Lucullus
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History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
— Edmund Morris
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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
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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
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No animal admires another animal.
— Blaise Pascal
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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
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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
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What each one honors before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.
— Origen
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The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.
— Scott Lynch
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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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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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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
— Oscar Wilde
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