Best 280 quotes in «admire quotes» category

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

No animal admires another animal.

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great; it just isn't how I do things.

Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!

One of our favorite Joe Strummer quotes was, "No input, no output." Meaning, we're going to hear a band, we're going to go to a museum, or we're going to go hang out with some writer that we admire. We're going to get some input, because if we don't, then we have nothing. It's a circle. It's a respiratory thing.

Nick Flynn is another writer I admire - his fragmented sections, his playfulness with genre, his urgency. The palette in his work is his style, a voice that is singular, and that's what I think writers should strive for, to have a style and a voice that is only theirs.

Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever.

People don't admire you for what you hate, they admire you for what you do about it, and your slacks.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

Seek out a person whom you admire and respect for the support you need - that we all need from time to time.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.

That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.

That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.

The actors I admire are character actors.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most

The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.

The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.