Admire Quotes

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

~ Alexander Lowen

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

~ Ayrton Senna

I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.

~ John Malkovich

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

~ Norman Maccaig

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

~ Carl Sandburg

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

~ F. H. Bradley

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

~ Jeffrey Kluger

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

~ Andrew Greeley

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

~ Sherman Alexie

I admire Modi's leadership and his ideology.

~ Akkineni Nagarjuna

I really admire medical people. They have a great sense of humour, and they just have to get on with it.

~ Neve Mcintosh

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

~ William Congreve

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

~ Richard Flanagan

I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

~ Rob Zombie

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

~ Mary Schmich

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

~ Hans Haacke

I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.

~ Rachel Cusk

Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.

~ Seamus Heaney