Quotes with admire

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  • Nicholas Boileau However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Alice Munro I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Alice Walker I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Ann Beattie I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Anthony Hope I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Margaret Drabble I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Seneca If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ben Brantley If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Charles Darwin It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • James Russell Lowell It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • John Milton Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Eric Hoffer More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Barbara Walters Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bonnie Wright Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
    Bonnie Wright
    English actress, model and activist (1991 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Bar Paly The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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