Admiration Quotes - Page 8

• Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.243, Da Capo Press

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• Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me. But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim's place, and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Thinking, Hands

  "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, 2008.

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• She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Happiness, Country, Military

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• I guess that in this process of trying to incorporate or to be faithful to the films I admire so much, thats how I start to find my own voice. The admiration I have for filmmakers, this gratitude, perhaps thats my only way to become specific.

  Arnaud Desplechin

  Gratitude, Voice, Faithful

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• To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Knowledge, Science, Expression

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1970). “A tribute to Professor I.I. Rabi on the occasion of his retirement from Columbia University”

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• Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

  William Ralph Inge

  Institutions, Contempt, Foreigners

  William Ralph Inge (1925). “Outspoken essays”

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• I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the desire for self-advancement, that must be appealed to. Envy is akin to admiration, and it is the admiration that the rich and powerful excite which secures the perpetuation of aristocracies.

  Henry George

  Powerful, Self, Envy

  Henry George (1884). “Social Problems”

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• The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

  "Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism". PBS documentary, June 2005.

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• Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

  Jack Vance

  Erotic, Function, Yearning

  "The Complete Lyonesse" by Jack Vance, Gollancz (p. 449), 2000.

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• Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Age, Values

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell, p. 485, 1791.

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• Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power. The admiration of the West in return only strengthened his conviction that his approach was right. But let us be clear that it was Mikhail Gorbachev, and not Boris Yeltsin, as is now widely being claimed, who first gave freedom of speech and movement to the citizens of Russia.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Freedom Of Speech, Conviction

  "I Am Not Afraid of Death". Interview With Christian Neef, Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. July 23, 2007.

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• One even tries to figure out why Donald Trump is so admiring of a leader who has cracked down on journalists and is suspected of using even violence, cracked down on civil society, ruling with an iron fist within Russia. To look with admiration on that sort of domestic leadership, I think is just really inconsistent with American values.

  Philip Gordon

  Thinking, Leader, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Quality, Action

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.286, Classic Books Company

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• Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Enemy, Different

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Iraq is fragile and may fall back into a devastating setting. We're not making the kind of progress in Afghanistan that had been promised. And our esteem around the world has fallen. I can't think of a major country. It's hard to think of a single country that has greater respect and admiration for America today than it did five years ago when Barack Obama became President. And that's a very sad, unfortunate state of affairs.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.

  Lena Headey

  Winning, Boys, Looks

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• I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

  T. S. Eliot

  Loathing, Efficiency, Deals

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Idea of a Christian Society”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration.

  Ernest Bevin

  Heart, Islands, Race

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• We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.

  Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

  Yield, Admiration And Respect, Our Love

  Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1969). “Hindutva; who is a Hindu?”

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• Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

  E. M. Forster

  Mistake, Humility, Hypocrisy

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.183, RosettaBooks

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• Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Love, Gains, Universal

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• My Army reserve service was in the 1990s. It was, more than anything else, an opportunity for me to express gratitude. My understanding of and admiration for the American armed forces is deeper, better informed as a result. I'm among those who believe that military or other citizen service should be an expected part of every American's life.

  James M Strock

  Gratitude, Military, Believe

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• You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

  Horace

  Art, Reading, Mean

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• Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Ignorant, Gold

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.583, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.

  Karl Donitz

  Defense, Staff, Said

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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