Admire Quotes - Page 37

• Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Venice, Want

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.100, A&C Black

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• You’re a slave? (Eleni) I was. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have come here. (Acheron) Take your cloak off and sit, Acheron. You’ve done nothing to apologize for. I admire you all the more for stopping to help us. It’s nothing for a nobleman to do so, yet they seldom bother to help those less fortunate. For a freedman to speak up in defense of another takes great courage and character. What you did is all the more noble and kind, and I would be honored to have you sit at my table with us. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Character, Would Be

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• These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Eye, Dark

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1097, First Avenue Editions

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• I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Hero, Journey

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.169, Random House

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• I couldn't help but see; I wasn't blind. I couldn't help but admire; I wasn't dead

  Lori Handeland

  Helping, Blind

  Lori Handeland (2014). “Rising Moon”, p.29, Lori Handeland

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• Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.

  William Congreve

  Soul, States, Thee

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• When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

  Douglas Adams

  Thinking, Lunch, People

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• A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Children, Growing Up, Father

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.178, Penguin

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• The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand?Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Choices, Childhood

  "The Pale King". Book by David Foster Wallace, 2011.

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• He said, "Hi, gorgeous," which I think is nice. I admire honesty.

  Louise Rennison

  Honesty, Nice, Thinking

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• Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You know what a monster is, young shade? Power. Power and choice. Monsters make choices. Monsters shape the world. Monsters force us to become stronger, smarter, better. They sift the weak from the strong and provide a forge for the steeling of souls. Even as we curse monsters, we admire them. Seek to become them, in some ways." Her eyes became distant. "There are far, far worse things to be than a monster.

  Jim Butcher

  Girl, Song, Strong

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• The very rich only admire themselves

  Paula McLain

  Rich

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.273, Ballantine Books

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• Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Eye, Reflection

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear." She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Teacher, Fall, Writing

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• Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Brave, Enough, Strive

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• Oui, oui, he snapped with an obvious lack of awe. "Ding dong the demon's dead, now can we admire our delightful handiwork someplace where the ceiling is not about to cave in and your oh-so-handsome vampire is not about to become a dust bunny? (Levet)

  Alexandra Ivy

  Dust, Vampire, Ceilings

  Alexandra Ivy (2007). “Embrace the Darkness”, p.128, Zebra Books

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• The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Song, Giving Up, Sacrifice

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• Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

  Ayn Rand

  Loneliness, Achievement, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.348, Penguin

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• Right now, I wish I’d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I don’t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leaving—that you love me, but you don’t need me. You don’t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now.

  Ann Aguirre

  Selfish, Mean, Leaving

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.98, Penguin

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• Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

  Stephen Hawking

  Risk, Scientist, Theory

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• The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Country, America, People

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• Isn't there a mirror someplace where you can go admire yourself?" "I never knew a woman so hung up on my good looks." "All your women are hung up on your good looks. They just pretend it's your personality.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mirrors, Personality, Looks

  FaceBook post by Susan Elizabeth Phillips from Jun 20, 2016

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• My people have a saying. Kirha tahanahna ditari sukenah. To deny the presence of the sun doesn’t escape its blister. I admire your loyalty. But sometimes you have to face the truth, even when it hurts.” – Choo Co La Tah

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Loyalty, Hurt, People

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• 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, Ifs

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.14, 谷月社

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• The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

  Christopher Paolini

  Self, Names, World

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.2961, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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