Quotes with admiration

  • Nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration.
  • We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.
  • I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
  • 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.
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  • John Adams As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Horace 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
    Roman poet
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  • André Maurois A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Joseph Addison Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Blaise Pascal Admiration spoils all from infancy. Ah! How well said! Ah! How well done! How well-behaved he is! etc.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Baruj Benacerraf As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Ann Landers Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Blaise Pascal How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire!
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Thomas Mann I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Katharine Hepburn If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Margaret Fuller It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Albert Einstein It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
    The Human Side (1954)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Susan Sontag The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Barbara Ward The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay, and can be reasonably sure that press and camera will report their exact dimensions.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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