Admire famous quotes

Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.
-- Abel Bonnard

#Friendship #Choices #Admire

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Dog #Vanity #Admire

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.
-- Alan Shearer

#Player #Admire #Paul Scholes

There are more things to admire in men then to despise.
-- Albert Camus

#Men #Despise #Admire

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace

#I Am Thankful #Admire

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

#People #Path #Admire

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
-- Andrew Motion

#Wordsworth #Poet #Admire

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
-- Ann Beattie

#Glowing #Males #Admire

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure
-- Anne Fadiman

#Heroic #Admire #Englishmen

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.
-- Anthony Hope

#May #Admiration #Admire

I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.
-- Ava DuVernay

#Narrative #Admire

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
-- Ayrton Senna

#Dedication #Idols #Admire

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'
-- B. F. Skinner

#Mean #People #Admire

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.
-- Bethenny Frankel

#People #Charity #Admire

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
-- Boethius

#Heaven #Lasts #Admire

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Long #Admire #Wells

The actors I admire are character actors.
-- Chaske Spencer

#Character #Actors #Admire

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
-- Colum McCann

#World #Admire

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Business #May #Admire

I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
-- Dalia Mogahed

#Hero #People #Admire

It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.
-- David Letterman

#Jerk #Disappointing #Admire

Let's stop for a moment to admire the rotating pies.
-- David Letterman

#Pie #Moments #Admire

I just admire a funny, confident, sassy woman and hopefully I'm that person.
-- Denise Bidot

#Sassy #Admire #Hopefully

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
-- E. B. White

#Writing #Admiration #Admire

I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
-- E. M. Forster

#Thinking #Helping #Admire

Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
-- Earl Tupper

#Admire #Tact

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
-- Edmund Waller

#World #Admire #Retiring

You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

#Admire #Eleanor

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

#Body #Incredibles #Admire

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?
-- Elvis Presley

#Envy #Fame #Admire

We grow into that which we admire.
-- Emmet Fox

#Growth #Admire #Grows

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.
-- Erik Naggum

#Successful #Unix #Admire

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Happiness #Secret #Admire

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Love #Admiration #Admire

We always like those who admire us.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Admiration #Admire

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Praise #Admire #Earnest

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
-- Frank Shorter

#Hero #Want #Admire

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.
-- Fred Willard

#Fear #Watches #Admire

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
-- Gene Tierney

#Addiction #Admire

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
-- George Jean Nathan

#Men #Admire

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

#Study #Admire #Masterpiece

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.
-- Greg Kinnear

#Stars #Actors #Admire

The Pathan people of Waziristan are proud people who I greatly admire.
-- Greg Mortenson

#People #Proud #Admire

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
-- Gustav Mahler

#Drama #Admire #Theatrical

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.
-- Hayley Mills

#Jobs #People #Admire

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.
-- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

#School #Degas #Admire

You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.
-- Henri Michaux

#Important #Admire

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die
-- Herb Elliott

#Running #Tactics #Admire

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
-- Hesiod

#Ships #Profit #Admire

Many admire, few know.
-- Hippocrates

#Reality #Admire

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient
-- Holly Hunter

#People #Patient #Admire

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
-- Horace

#Men #Delight #Admire

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

#People #Matter #Admire

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Artist #Actors #Admire

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.
-- James M. Barrie

#Three #Way #Admire

I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.
-- Jean-Dominique Bauby

#Needs #Breathe #Admire

I do greatly admire Australian artists.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Artist #Admire

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.
-- Jenny Eclair

#People #World #Admire

For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man.
-- Jeremiah Seed

#Men #He Man #Admire

I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.
-- Jessica Hahn

#People #Admire #Screws

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

#Appreciate #Cherish #Admire

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
-- John Milton

#Men #Virtue #Admire

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?
-- Joseph Addison

#Rome #Doe #Admire

I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.
-- Judd Apatow

#People #Admire

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
-- Kabir

#Hammers #Bears #Admire

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.
-- Karen Joy Fowler

#Dad #Admire #Admire You

It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human.
-- Kate Jacobs

#Scary #Admire #Humans

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
-- Katherine Dunham

#Thinking #Talent #Admire

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

#People #Franklin #Admire

I like to admire. I'm a fan of beauty.
-- Kesha

#Fans #Admire

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.
-- Kevin McCloud

#Admire

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
-- Kitty Kelley

#Hero #Apology #Admire

I admire my father greatly.
-- Kojo Annan

#Father #Admire

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.
-- Lavrenti Lopes

#Dedication #Crafts #Admire

I always admire people who have passion.
-- Lesley Nicol

#Passion #People #Admire

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.
-- Lin Yutang

#This Life #Existence #Admire

I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.
-- Lindsay Lohan

#College #Want #Admire

It`s always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer.
-- Lizz Winstead

#Fun #Voice #Admire

I couldn't help but see; I wasn't blind. I couldn't help but admire; I wasn't dead
-- Lori Handeland

#Helping #Blind #Admire

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

#Doe #Admire #Mankind

I admire people who are creative.
-- Luise Rainer

#People #Creative #Admire

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

#Dog #Men #Admire

Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
-- Mandy Moore

#Full Potential #Benefits #Admire

I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.
-- Marcel Duchamp

#Beauty #Faces #Admire

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.
-- Mario Monti

#Quality #Certain #Admire

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.
-- Mark Rydell

#Directors #Admire #Maverick

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.
-- Mark Twain

#Race #Admire #Etiquette

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
-- Martha Stewart

#Self #Succeed #Admire

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.
-- Mary Balogh

#Greatness #Substance #Admire

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

#Devil #Satan #Admire

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
-- Max Beerbohm

#Criticism #Kind #Admire

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
-- Michelle Kwan

#Powerful #Winning #Admire

We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Character #Personality #Admire

I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.
-- Mike Birbiglia

#People #Admire #Situation

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

#Admire #Contemporary

You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov

#Dance #Shapes #Admire

I admire American ideas.
-- Mikhail Saakashvili

#Ideas #Admire

I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.
-- Missy Peregrym

#Parent #Admire #Raised

Life is beauty admire it!
-- Mother Teresa

#Beauty #Life Is #Admire

I think Sarah Palin is amazing. I totally admire her.
-- Nadine Dorries

#Thinking #Admire #Palin