Admiration Quote by Elizabeth Bowen Download Open image “Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.” — Elizabeth Bowen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Admiration Character Growth Hostility People Personality
Admiration is seen as a noble sentiment - we admire people for admiring others, detecting, in their admiration, a suggestion of taste and humility. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“There are three things admiration affirms; the lack of autonomy, the senility of the mind, and the strength of desperation. Irrationality and inferiority are… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Are you really an orphan? Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you? No, not at present, but I suppose it's a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
The older you've gotten, the more respect and admiration you've received. — Jupp Heynckes Copy Share Image
I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for… — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There must be a reason to smile, Miss François. Will you supply one?" It was Daisy's turn to stare. For a long moment they… — Jaime Jo Wright Copy Share Image
“Let me make two remarks. First I concentrate on the task ahead for 2016. I’m quite busy with that—thank you very much. And I’m… — Claudia Clark Copy Share Image
The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
