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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
Admires quotes by Wassily Kandinsky
I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires. ~ Park Chan-wook
Admires quotes by Park Chan-wook
Anyone I love takes away part of my freedom, but in that case it is I who wished it; and there is so much pleasure in loving that one gladly sacrifices something for its sake. Any one who loves me takes away all my freedom. Anyone who admires me (as a writer) threatens to take it away from me. I even fear those who understand me, which is why I spend so much time covering my tracks - both in my private life and in the persona I express through my books. What would have delighted me, had I loved god, is the thought that god gives nothing in return. ~ Henry De Montherlant
Admires quotes by Henry De Montherlant
He realizes finally that the boy he's been watching snap his board into the air, then neatly touch down- long, black, gleaming hair, pale white skin- is Felice. He didn't know she'd learned how to skateboard. He's never seen her like this before- so intently focused and content- her beauty beside the point, merely part of the catalog of effects- speed, balance, daring. He admires her athletic form and feels moved in some unexpected way. ~ Diana Abu-Jaber
Admires quotes by Diana Abu-Jaber
That is the way with us when we have any uneasy jealousy in our disposition: if our talents are chiefly of the burrowing kind, our honey-sipping cousin (whom we have grave reasons for objecting to) is likely to have a secret contempt for us, and any one who admires him passes an oblique criticism on ourselves. Having the scruples of rectitude in our souls, we are above the meanness of injuring him - rather we meet all his claims on us by active benefits; and the drawing of cheques for him, being a superiority which he must recognize, gives our bitterness a milder infusion. ~ George Eliot
Admires quotes by George Eliot
Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires. ~ Edmund Waller
Admires quotes by Edmund Waller
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Admires quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald
Admires quotes by F Scott Fitzgerald
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
Admires quotes by William Congreve
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. ~ Lord Chesterfield
Admires quotes by Lord Chesterfield
I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked. ~ Patricia McConnell
Admires quotes by Patricia McConnell
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Admires quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful. ~ Earl Tupper
Admires quotes by Earl Tupper
If a man sees a woman with red lipstick, he admires her, but often he won't feel like kissing her. ~ Monica Bellucci
Admires quotes by Monica Bellucci
I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person. ~ Hanya Yanagihara
Admires quotes by Hanya Yanagihara
The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul as if he had but that one soul to bless. How my heart admires the concentration of all the Godhead and humanity of Christ in his search after each sheep of his flock. ~ Charles Spurgeon
Admires quotes by Charles Spurgeon
Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it. ~ Scott Wolf
Admires quotes by Scott Wolf
If a man admires a woman he had something in his mind that he would like to carry further. If a woman admires a man, she had definitely made up her mind. ~ Girdhar Joshi
Admires quotes by Girdhar Joshi
Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor. ~ John Steinbeck
Admires quotes by John Steinbeck
Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured. ~ William J. Clinton
Admires quotes by William J. Clinton
You've a good heart,Joanna Robbins,he said from his perch on the wagon seat. It's easy to see why Jackson admires you. ~ Karen Witemeyer
Admires quotes by Karen Witemeyer
The moment you are born your death is foretold by your newly minted cells as your mother holds you up, then hands you to your father, who gently tickles the stomach where the cancer will one day form, studies the eyes where melanoma's dark signature is already written along the optic nerve, touches the back where the liver will one day house the cirrhosis, feels the bloodstream that will sweeten itself into diabetes, admires the shape of the head where the brain will fall to the ax-handle of stroke, or listens to your heart, which, exhausted by the fearful ways and humiliations and indecencies of life, will explode in your chest like a light going out in the world. ~ Pat Conroy
Admires quotes by Pat Conroy
What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence. ~ Oscar Wilde
Admires quotes by Oscar Wilde
I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die. ~ Bertrand Russell
Admires quotes by Bertrand Russell
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is afraid to know. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of strength and greatness, someone else's strength and greatness. He's proud of his great generals but not of himself. He admires an idea he has not had, not one he has had. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it. And the better he understands an idea, the less he believes in it. ~ Wilhelm Reich
Admires quotes by Wilhelm Reich
Fortunate is the one who admires the other. ~ Pranita Deshpande
Admires quotes by Pranita Deshpande
The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study imagination objectively since one really receives the image only if he admires it. Already in comparing one image to another, one runs the risk of losing participation in its individuality. ~ Gaston Bachelard
Admires quotes by Gaston Bachelard
Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it's also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children. ~ Eric Cantona
Admires quotes by Eric Cantona
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman. ~ Ernestine Rose
Admires quotes by Ernestine Rose
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. ~ Oscar Wilde
Admires quotes by Oscar Wilde
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. ~ James Salter
Admires quotes by James Salter
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. ~ James Allen
Admires quotes by James Allen
A fool can always find a greater fool who admires him. ~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Admires quotes by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
I want to be someone she respects. Admires. But in order for that to happen, I'm going to have to change. To become stronger. As strong as her. ~ Amy Plum
Admires quotes by Amy Plum
Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men. ~ Lucullus
Admires quotes by Lucullus
The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste. ~ Irwin Winkler
Admires quotes by Irwin Winkler
God cherises praises , admires thanksgiving and embraces prayer . ~ Osunsakin Adewale
Admires quotes by Osunsakin Adewale
A woman who admires a man who is bold and brave should learn how to uphold her prestige, decency and grace. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson
Admires quotes by Anyaele Sam Chiyson
I have a secret secret admirer. Not only is her identity a secret - but so is the fact that she admires me. ~ Jarod Kintz
Admires quotes by Jarod Kintz
The thing about capturing a prize fish is that everyone admires the fish, and soon forgets about the fisherman. You love the thing that makes you special, then hate it because it's the thing that makes you special. ~ Samuel Park
Admires quotes by Samuel Park
So, dearest Madden, on a scale of one to ten ... am I fired?"
"What, for completely disobeying orders and bringing public enemy number one back to the center of the liberal universe so we would have to actually pardon him?"
"Something like that."
"You know, this may surprise you, but the president of the United States, your commander in chief, wanted me to express her gratitude. She said she admires your moxie."
"Wow. The president of the United States admires my moxie. Are you jealous?"
"Maybe. It's possible. No one has ever said anything about my moxie."
I slurp through my smirk. ~ Andrea Portes
Admires quotes by Andrea Portes
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery
Admires quotes by Antoine De Saint Exupery
The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. ~ Tony Howard
Admires quotes by Tony Howard
Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are. ~ Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Admires quotes by Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Flowers will still bloom for the world~ regardless of whether anyone admires them or not. ~ Nina Montgomery
Admires quotes by Nina Montgomery
Could we have seen this efflorescence of stupidity? Yes, because every mass political movement unleashes the worst in human behaviour and admires it. For a time at least. ~ Doris Lessing
Admires quotes by Doris Lessing
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ~ Leo Rosten
Admires quotes by Leo Rosten
What each one honors before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God. ~ Origen
Admires quotes by Origen
Darkness admires the light; light admires what it illuminates ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Admires quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him. ~ William Faulkner
Admires quotes by William Faulkner
The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives. ~ Desmond Tutu
Admires quotes by Desmond Tutu
You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it. ~ Karen Joy Fowler
Admires quotes by Karen Joy Fowler
Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand ~ Ole H.
Admires quotes by Ole H.
People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People adore the one who encourages them to display their conversational wares and admires the display. ~ Margery Wilson
Admires quotes by Margery Wilson
No animal admires another animal. ~ Blaise Pascal
Admires quotes by Blaise Pascal
The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed. ~ Alfred Armand Montapert
Admires quotes by Alfred Armand Montapert
The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways. ~ Salman Khurshid
Admires quotes by Salman Khurshid
In fact, however, Nietzsche's very first book, The Birth, constitutes a declaration of independence from Schopenhauer: while Nietzsche admires him for honestly facing up to the terrors of existence, Nietzsche himself celebrates Greek tragedy as a superior alternative to Schopenhauer's "Buddhistic negation of the will." From tragedy Nietzsche learns that one can affirm life as sublime, beautiful, and joyous in spite of all suffering and cruelty. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Admires quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
It is obvious that in his day-dreams he is a warrior, not a professor; all of the men he admires were military. His opinion of women, like every man's, is an objectification of his own emotion towards them, which is obviously one of fear. "Forget not thy whip"-- but nine women out of ten would get the whip away from him, and he knew it, so he kept away from women, and soothed his wounded vanity with unkind remarks. [...] [H]e is so full of fear and hatred that spontaneous love of mankind seems to him impossible. He has never conceived of the man who, with all the fearlessness and stubborn pride of the superman, nevertheless does not inflict pain because he has no wish to do so. Does any one suppose that Lincoln acted as he did from fear of hell? Yet to Nietzsche, Lincoln is abject, Napoleon magnificent. [...] I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die. But I think the ultimate argument against his philosophy, as against any unpleasant but internally self-conscious ethic, lies not in an appeal to facts, but in an appeal to the emotions. Nietzsche despises universal love; I feel it the motive power to all that I desire as regards the world. His followers have had their innings, but we may hope that it is coming rapidly to an end. ~ Bertrand Russell
Admires quotes by Bertrand Russell
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it. ~ Hermann Hesse
Admires quotes by Hermann Hesse
He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Admires quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
The state of admiration is a condition of feeblemindedness. Most people are feebleminded all their lives only because they admire. Only a dimwit admires, the smart one doesn't admire: he respects, observes, understands. ~ Gerhard Kopf
Admires quotes by Gerhard Kopf
The best wisdom of a great woman is when she opens her heart to the man she most respects, admires, and cares about- She gets better ~ Rashad A. Baadqir
Admires quotes by Rashad A. Baadqir
'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. ~ John Milton
Admires quotes by John Milton
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. ~ Honore De Balzac
Admires quotes by Honore De Balzac
Having spent all my life among academics, I can tell you that hearing how wrong they area is about as high on their priority list as finding a cockroach in their coffee. The typical scientist has made an interesting discovery early on in his or her career, followed by a lifetime of making sure that everyone else admires his or her contribution and that no one questions it. There is no poorer company than an aging scientist who has failed to achieve these objectives. ~ Frans De Waal
Admires quotes by Frans De Waal
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Admires quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
THOMAS CAREW. 1589-1639. Disdain Returned. He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. ~ Various
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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen. ~ Virginia Woolf
Admires quotes by Virginia Woolf
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent. ~ Berthold Auerbach
Admires quotes by Berthold Auerbach
There is a muse, but he's not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer. He lives in the ground. He's a basement kind of guy. You have to descend to his level, and once you get down there you have to furnish an apartment for him to live in. You have to do all the grunt labor, in other words, while the muse sits and smokes cigars and admires his bowling trophies and pretends to ignore you. Do you think it's fair? I think it's fair. He may not be much to look at, that muse-guy, and he may not be much of a conversationalist, but he's got inspiration. It's right that you should do all the work and burn all the mid-night oil, because the guy with the cigar and the little wings has got a bag of magic. There's stuff in there that can change your life. Believe me, I know. ~ Stephen King
Admires quotes by Stephen King
I paint with a language I can call my own ... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself. ~ Scott Kahn
Admires quotes by Scott Kahn
Because---and this was the first time I understood this--- everyone always like the best, wants the most, admires deeply, the girl who's just out of reach. The girl no one can touch, really. We don't know why we're drawn, but it's unstoppable. ~ Megan Abbott
Admires quotes by Megan Abbott
Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Admires quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. ~ Sigmund Freud
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He looks at me for a long moment. "You're not the type of woman who gives up easily, are you?" I
can't tell if he admires this trait or sees it as a sign of deteriorating mental health. ~ Eileen Cook
Admires quotes by Eileen Cook
The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender ... ~ Heinrich Heine
Admires quotes by Heinrich Heine
People who dress up in bizarre costumes have a savoir-vivre - not to mention the sort of personality disorder - that he admires. ~ Thomas Pynchon
Admires quotes by Thomas Pynchon
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types
the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution. ~ G.K. Chesterton
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It's also quite possible she still detests me."

Tyler dismissed this with a wave. "You're going to let a thing like that stop you?"

"I was thinking intense despisement might be an obstacle in pursuing her, yes."

"No, see, that's what makes it all the more interesting," Tyler said. He adopted a grandly dramatic tone. "'Does our fair Ms. Kendall truly loathe the arrogant Mr. Jameson as she so ardently proclaims, or is it all just a charade to cover more amorous feelings for a man she reluctantly admires?'"

Up front, the cabdriver snorted loudly. He appeared to be enjoying the show.

"Psych 101 again?" J.D. asked.

Tyler shook his head. "Lit 305: Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction." He caughtJ.D.'s look and quickly defended himself. "What? I took it because of the girls in the class. Anyway, I see a bit of a P and P dynamic going on between you and Payton."

J.D. didn't think he wanted to know. Really. But he asked anyway. "P and P?"

Tyler shot him a look, appalled. "Uh, hello - Pride and Prejudice?" His tone said only a cretin wouldn't know this.

"Oh right, P and P," J.D. said. "You know, Tyler, you might want to pick up your balls - I think they just fell right off when you said that."

Up front, the cabdriver let out a good snicker. ~ Julie James
Admires quotes by Julie James
Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters
and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown. ~ Thomas Hood
Admires quotes by Thomas Hood
For what is worth: Slazinger claims to have learned from history that most people cannot open their minds to new ideas unless a mind-opening team with a peculiar membership goes to work on them. Otherwise, life will go on exactly as before, no matter how painful, unrealistic, unjust, ludicrous, or downright dumb that life may be.
The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise, the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail.
The rarest of these specialists, he says, is an authentic person, capable of having seemingly good ideas not in general circulation. „Such a person, working alone", he says, „is invariably ignored as a lunatic."
The second sort of specialist is a lot easier to find: a highly intelligent citizen in good standing in his or her community, who understands and admires the fresh ideas, and who testifies that the first specialist is far from mad. „A person like that working alone", he says, „can only yearn out loud for changes, but fail to say what their shapes should be".
The third sort of specialist is a person who can explain anything, no matter how complicated, to the satisfaction of most people, no matter how stupid or pig-headed they may be. „He will say almost anything in order to be interesting and exciting," says Slazinger. „Working alone, depending solely on his own shallow ideas, he would be regarded as being as full of shit as a Christmas turkey. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn't afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed ~ Ada Louise Huxtable
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The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them. ~ Max Beerbohm
Admires quotes by Max Beerbohm
While for critics of sprawl the generic signifies a loss of local identity and connection to place, for Koolhaas it represents an opportunity for reinvention and fantasy free from nostalgia or provincial habit. He admires the generic's accessibility, impermanence, economy of imagination, and malleable lack of authenticity or moralizing agenda. ~ Graham Owen
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it. ~ Alexander Pope
Admires quotes by Alexander Pope
Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires? ~ J.M. Coetzee
Admires quotes by J.M. Coetzee
The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer - because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement, not the possession of a brainless slut. ~ Ayn Rand
Admires quotes by Ayn Rand
Out of the long tunnels of his eyes Adam saw his half-brother Charles as a bright being of another species, gifted with muscle and bone, speed and alertness, quite on a different plane, to be admired as one admires the sleek lazy danger of a black leopard, not by any chance to be compared with one's self. ~ John Steinbeck
Admires quotes by John Steinbeck
I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm. ~ Svetlana Alliluyeva
Admires quotes by Svetlana Alliluyeva
What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Admires quotes by Ambrose Bierce
In general, people find it easier to accept flattery or false praise than genuine admiration and love, because a build-up does not threaten their negative beliefs about themselves. It is not uncommon for people to dismiss a genuine compliment from someone who really admires them and appreciates their personal qualities. they feel awkward and uncomfortable because this experience causes anxiety, self-consciousness, and guilt about standing out. ~ Robert Firestone Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice
Admires quotes by Robert Firestone Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice
If you want to know what a man's character is really like ... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature. ~ Sydney J. Harris
Admires quotes by Sydney J. Harris
Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus. ~ H.L. Mencken
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The coat of arms of the human race ought to consist of a man with an axe on his shoulder proceeding toward a grindstone. Or, it ought to represent the several members of the human race holding out the hat to each other. For we are all beggars. Each in his own way. One beggar is too proud to beg for pennies but will beg a loan of dollars, knowing he can't repay; another will not beg a loan but will beg for a postmastership; another will not do that but will beg for an introduction to "society"; one, being rich, will not beg a hod of coal of the railway company but will beg a pass; his neighbor will not beg coal, nor pass, but in social converse with a lawyer will place before him a supposititious case in the hope of getting an opinion out of him for nothing; one who would disdain to beg for any of these things will beg frankly for the presidency. None of the lot is ashamed of himself, but he despises the rest of the mendicants. Each admires his own dignity, and carefully guards it, but in his opinion the others haven't any. ~ Mark Twain
Admires quotes by Mark Twain
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures? ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires. ~ George Sand
Admires quotes by George Sand
I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for everyone. ~ Elizabeth Gillies
Admires quotes by Elizabeth Gillies
Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires. ~ James Joyce
Admires quotes by James Joyce
It might be useful here to say a word about Beckett, as a link between the two stages, and as illustrating the shift towards schism. He wrote for transition, an apocalyptic magazine (renovation out of decadence, a Joachite indication in the title), and has often shown a flair for apocalyptic variations, the funniest of which is the frustrated millennialism of the Lynch family in Watt, and the most telling, perhaps, the conclusion of Comment c'est. He is the perverse theologian of a world which has suffered a Fall, experienced an Incarnation which changes all relations of past, present, and future, but which will not be redeemed. Time is an endless transition from one condition of misery to another, 'a passion without form or stations,' to be ended by no parousia. It is a world crying out for forms and stations, and for apocalypse; all it gets is vain temporality, mad, multiform antithetical influx.

It would be wrong to think that the negatives of Beckett are a denial of the paradigm in favour of reality in all its poverty. In Proust, whom Beckett so admires, the order, the forms of the passion, all derive from the last book; they are positive. In Beckett, the signs of order and form are more or less continuously presented, but always with a sign of cancellation; they are resources not to be believed in, cheques which will bounce. Order, the Christian paradigm, he suggests, is no longer usable except as an irony; that is why the Rooneys collapse in laughter when the ~ Frank Kermode
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