Admiration Quotes - Page 15

• As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.

  Shana Alexander

  Easter, Real, Idols

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• Santiago Martinez Delgado made a Master piece in the Colombian Congress building worthy of admiration.

  Santiago Martinez Delgado

  Pieces, Building, Made

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• Columbia students called me a baby killer, but remained silent for Ahmadinejad. I'm not sure if that was out of fear for the Iranian president or admiration.

  Matt Sanchez

  Baby, President, Killers

  "Free Speech For All?" by Alicia Colon, The New York Sun, September 28, 2007.

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• I have a certain admiration for Vladimir Putin because he doesn't allow decisions to be forced upon him by other countries. I think he focuses first and foremost on what is good for Russia and the Russians. As such, I have the same respect for Putin that I do for Ms. Merkel.

  Marine Le Pen

  Country, Thinking, Russia

  Source: www.eunews.it

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• The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Power, Tyrants

  William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters”, p.163

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• We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Law, Age

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 42, 1836.

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• Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Philosophical, Writing, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and fateful laws while our hearts stand by startled and passive. We come to its assistanceRecognizing one of its symptoms, we recall, we bring back to life the others. Since we possess its song engraved in its totality within us, we do not need for a woman to tell us the beginning--filled with admiration inspired by beauty--to find the continuation.

  Marcel Proust

  Song, Heart, Law

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• Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so thathe insinuates his sentiments and taste into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence. Addison's style, like a light wine, pleases everybody from the first. Johnson's, like a liquor of more body, seems too strong at first, but, by degrees, is highly relished.

  James Boswell

  Wise, Teacher, Strong

  James Boswell (1827). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence; and conversations with many eminent persons ...”, p.58

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• Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.

  Florence King

  Respect, Men, Experts

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.50, Macmillan

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• ... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

  Bell Hooks

  Taken, Needs, Way

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.109, Routledge

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• People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

  Emily Eden

  Jealousy, Real, Hard Work

  Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.8

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• The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate them especially in their nationalism against the West. But mutated by Saddam Hussein it became also one that very, very much admired, and grew a special moustache in admiration of the work of Yosif Vissarionovitch Dzugashvili, the great Georgian known to us historically as Stalin. So you had him in modern Iraq, a regime in our own time, that was openly, directly modelled upon the two most extreme examples of European totalitarianism.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Two, Iraq

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When I was in office I expressed admiration and respect and even affection for Republicans that I knew and liked and cared about, and I tried to find ways to work with them. I think the Democrats should do that, and just keep trying to lower the temperature.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Office, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people.
  But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right
  there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.'

  Paul McCartney

  Jesus, Fantastic Life, People

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• One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Fighting, Winning

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• I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It's become incredibly difficult. In North America, we've largely forgotten how to do it.

  William Gibson

  America, Interesting, People

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.

  Gene Wolfe

  Long, Amber, Remains

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.221, Macmillan

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• To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.

  Frances Trollope

  Thinking, United States, Newspapers

  Frances Trollope (2013). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.192, Courier Corporation

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• It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.

  Jo Coudert

  Respect, Believe, Oil

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.134, iUniverse

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• What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!

  Susan Fenimore Cooper

  Gratitude, Fall, Men

  Susan Fenimore Cooper (1850). “Rural Hours”, p.202

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• Apparently, in the eyes of the law, my admiration of Justin Bieber is creepy.

  Kim Kardashian

  Eye, Law, Creepy

  "Lady Gaga's Accceptance Speech, Cher's Outfit And More: Our Top 10 VMA Moments" by Terri Schwartz, www.mtv.com. September 13, 2010.

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• . . . for beauty stands
  In the admiration only of weak minds
  Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes
  Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy,
  At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Fall, Mind

  John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books”, p.86

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• 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 for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

  Toby Jones

  Darkness, Giants, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a profound admiration for Fellini. I met him lately and he's just fantastic. I feel very close to him even though he's very Italian. But his films could have been made in every country. When I say, I feel close to him, then also because we're both born on January 20th.

  David Lynch

  Country, Italian, Profound

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