Admire Quotes

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

Whenever you respect and admire a spiritual quality, it starts to grow in yourself.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.

I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

I admire President Obama's ability to trust strangers.

The Pathan people of Waziristan are proud people who I greatly admire.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.

There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.

To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.

I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.

I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right choice.

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.

I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.

There is also a philosophy of less-is-more, and a little dignity that never hurt anybody. There are many qualities to admire about our father's generation.

I also think there is a wisdom and strength in that generation [of our parents], in terms of getting through difficult times, and there is a stoicism in the face of challenges that I greatly admire.

The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire.

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help.

I admire the actors that truly can impersonate someone - become someone, inhabit someone. It's amazing when you see it done.

I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

I admire John Boehner greatly. He's a great public servant. I think people are going to miss him in the long run because he's a person that is focused on solving problems.

I love my brother, I love my dad, actually love my mother as well, hope that's ok. And I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make.

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.

For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man.

I admire and respect Bill Clinton. I think he was a great president.

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.

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

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.

I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to be very clear.

I admire your capacity for admiring.

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

It's hard to know who to choose when you admire two people who are so different.

I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.