Admiring Quotes

• Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Beauty, Sex, Humanity

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Nov. 30-Dec. 6)" by Alexandra Katehakis, M.F.T., www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2012.

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• The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

  Victor Hugo

  Hate, Envy, Wicked

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• The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Art, Children, Want

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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Being Happy, Inner Peace

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• Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Romantic, Respect

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• You always admire what you really don't understand.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Fake People, Appreciation

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• To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

  Theophile Gautier

  Love, Heart, Carpe Diem

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

  Elia Kazan

  Voice, Secret, Hearing

  Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.278, Knopf

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• To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

  Nick Cannon

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• Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

  Jean Kerr

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”

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• I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.

  Norman Rockwell

  Artist, People, Letters

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• I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Jobs, War

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• The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.

  Kinky Friedman

  Mirrors, Guy, Republican

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• You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Country, Opportunity, People

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• A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

  Walter Bagehot

  House, Looks, Fierce

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The House of Lords'

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• The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

  Walter Bagehot

  House, Political, Looks

  "The greatest obstacles to Lords reform sit in the Commons" by Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2012.

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• I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

  Mary MacLane

  Book, Writing, Years

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.24, Petrarca Press

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• Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Stupidity, Criticism

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 390

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• We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Admiration, Admire

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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  F. H. Bradley

  Happiness, Secret, Admiration

  Aphorisms (1930) no. 33

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• If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

  Zoe Saldana

  Important, Said, Filmmaker

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• I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Black, Peers, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Teacher, Men, Rose

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Clothes, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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