Admires Quotes
75 quotes by 69 authors
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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
— Sydney J. Harris
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We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.
— Lech Walesa
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Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
— Earl Tupper
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Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in…
— Scott Wolf
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The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to…
— Salman Khurshid
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The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many…
— Heinrich Heine
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Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety…
— Samuel Johnson
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The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
— Max Beerbohm
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Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires…
— Ernestine Rose
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The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
— Alfred Armand Montapert
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The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals,…
— Thomas Hood
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the…
— Alexander Pope
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Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever.
— Susan Cain
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A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care…
— Rudolf Steiner
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
— Hermann Hesse
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