Admire Quotes - Page 38

• No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

  Louis L'Amour

  School, Giving, Matter

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.12, Bantam

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• We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sacrifice, Hatred, Humanity

  "Orthodoxy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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• But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Effort, Understanding, Cost

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Fashion, Silly

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “An Old-Fashioned Girl: Top Novelist Focus”, p.129, 谷月社

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• I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.

  Joanna Russ

  Hero, Special, Want

  Joanna Russ (2010). “The Female Man”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• Emerald green eyes studied us from a face that could have been sculpted by one of the classical artists I so admired. Shocked, I dismissed the comparison as soon as it popped into my head. This was a vampire, after all. It was ridiculous to admire him the way I would some hot human guy.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Artist, Guy

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.34, Penguin

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

  Albert Camus

  Men, Despise, Plague

  "The Plague".

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• You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Crazy, Self, People

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• Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.

  Jo Nesbo

  Cockroaches, World, Toilets

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• And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Aunt, Letters

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.243, BookBaby

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• Listen, I didn't ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents' DNA, I've got them, and I'm not ashamed to use 'em. Having a face Adonis would admire is one of the few advantages I've been given in life, and I use it to it's full potential whether it's for good or evil.

  Simone Elkeles

  Girl, Dna, Evil

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “Rules of Attraction”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

  John Gray

  Appreciate, Cherish, Persons

  John Gray (2009). “Mars and Venus on a Date: A Guide for Navigating the 5 Stages of Dating to Create a Loving and Lasting Relationship”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren’t. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hair, Shopping, Worship You

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Lovely, Towers, Ships

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• We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Writing, Thinking, Order

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Extinction: A Novel”, p.187, Vintage

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• I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Energy, Protect, Limitation

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.133, Vintage

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• I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

  John Barth

  Simple, Talent, Complicated

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• I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior.

  Hayley Williams

  Jesus, Gay, Sunday

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• 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.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Should, Ask Me

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• You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence.

  James Joyce

  Beautiful, Believe, Love You

  James Joyce (1976). “Selected letters of James Joyce”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• A man fishes for two reasons: he’s either sport fishing or fishing to eat, which means he’s either going to try to catch the biggest fish he can, take a picture of it, admire it with his buddies and toss it back to sea, or he’s going to take that fish on home, scale it, fillet it, toss it in some cornmeal, fry it up, and put it on his plate. This, I think, is a great analogy for how men seek out women.

  Steve Harvey

  Sports, Home, Mean

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• With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid." Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Nice, Eye, Skills

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• Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Littles, Wheel Of Time

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.257, Macmillan

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• The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Doubt, Needs

  Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene”, p.198, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

  Jasper Fforde

  Should Have, Quality, Century

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