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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn— 1954 In the Journal American, 22 Feb.
I would lie in bed the night before a new school and decide who I was going to be. It would usually be based on someone I admired from the school before.
josh lucas— Regarding moving so many times as a child
Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.
Harold Brodkey— Remark about his articles tracing the course of his illness in the NewYorker. Quoted in his obituary in TheScotsman, 29 Jan1996.
And I'm afraid, reading this passage now, That everything I knew has been destroyed By those whom I admired but never knew; The laughing soldiers fought to their defeat And I'm afraid most of my friends are dead.
james fenton— 1982 'In a Notebook'.
Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,—a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,—if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
ralph waldo emerson— Immortality
The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said “you are one brave young man.” And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn’t stop.
mart laar— Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, for 'Freakonomics Radio' podcast (24 March 2010), when asked how he learned the fate of Friedman's policies in the Western world.
Lambert, who admired Duke Ellington and proclaimed his harmonic roots in Frederick Delius (who in his turn had taken them from Debussy), was a fearless reconciler of what the academies and Tin Pan Alley alike presumed to be eternally opposed…In 1972, on a plane from New York to Toronto, I found myself sitting next to Duke Ellington, who spoke almost with tears in his eyes of the stature of Lambert.
Constant Lambert— Anthony Burgess Little Wilson and Big God ([1987] 1988) pp. 110-11.
I deeply respect Heath's work and always admired his continuing development as an artist. My thoughts are with his family and close friends.
heath ledger— Cate Blanchett, actress; costar in I'm Not There (2007).In Quotes: Heath Ledger Tributes". BBC News, Entertainment. bbc.co.uk (BBC) (January 23, 2008). Retrieved on 2008-08-23.
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.
george saintsbury— Vol. 1, pp. 4-5
In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.
walter schellenberg— To Leon Goldensohn (13 March 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
Roma are a great side and Francesco Totti, who called to convince me to join, is a great player who I have always admired.
francesco totti— Adrian Mutu, 2012 [38]
It's lovely to get to say hello to people you've always admired from afar, but the fun really starts out front with people going commando whilst wearing daring mud suits.
kt tunstall— On attending the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, in a Glastonbury Festival site interview (22 June 2007)
Once or twice, when she [Chantal] had adroitly avoided an opportunity of pleasing or winning admiration (for her shrewd wit and vivacity made her popular), she was astonished at his [Abbé Chevance's] disapproval. [She asked him why.] Blushing he had replied, "I will tell you, my daughter. I used to try very hard to be admired, to be liked. That is the world!" Then, with that profound finesse which no one had ever had the wit to recognize in the former priest of Costerel-sur-Meuse, he at once added, "I had more to fear from the world than you have."
Georges Bernanos— pp.35–36 (La joie (Joy) 1929)
The misnamed "feminine" woman, so admired by her creator, man the woman who is acquiescent in her inferiority and who has swallowed man's image of her as his ordained helpmate and no more is in reality the "masculine" woman. The truly feminine woman "cannot help burning with that inner rage that comes from having to identify with her exploiter's negative image of her," and having to conform to her persecutor's idea of femininity and its man-decreed limitations.
elizabeth gould davis— The First Sex, ch. 22 - Woman in the Aquarian Age (1971).
Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence. Modern science arose from global objections against earlier views and rationalism itself, the idea that there are general rules and standards for conducting our affairs, affairs of knowledge included, arose from global objections to common sense.
paul karl feyerabend— pg 223 (Against Method (1975))
He's a mediocre man -- and knows it, or suspects it, which is worse; he will come to no good, and in the meantime he's treated rudely by waiters and is not really admired even by middle-class dowagers.
e. m. forster— Lytton Strachey, Letter to James Strachey, 3 February 1914, in Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography (1968)
After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, ‘I too am beautiful!’ … In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.
margaret fuller— Adam Mickiewicz, as quoted in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" by Joseph Jay Deiss in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972).
Vanity and narcissism the compulsive need to be admired and praised undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.
rollo may— p. 177 (Man’s Search for Himself (1953))
Few men have been admired by their own households.
Michel de Montaigne— Essais, Book III, chapter 2 (1595)
Few men have been admired by their own domestics.
Michel de Montaigne— Book iii. Chap 2. Of Repentance
By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.
george orwell— "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad," Tribune (12 April 1946)
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.
— Robert M. Pirsig, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
A cloud was on the mind of men, and wailing went the weather, Yea, a sick cloud upon the soul when we were boys together. Science announced nonentity and art admired decay; The world was old and ended : but you and I were gay ; Round us in antic order their crippled vices came Lust that had lost its laughter , fear that had lost its shame .
— The Green Carnation here is reference to Oscar Wilde, and a scandal which arose after the publication of The Green Carnation, a satirical novel by Robert Smythe Hichens which portrayed his homosexual lifestyle, Leaves of Grass was a famously controversial work by poet Walt Whitman (who was born on Long Island which he often referred to by its earlier name of Paumanok), and Tusitala was a name used by Robert Louis Stevenson after he settled in Samoa.
We had admired the presidential palace and parliament houses, paused beside the striking India Gate, inspected the 16th Century Humayun's Tomb--a forerunner to the Taj Mahal--and cruised past scores of international embassies. Now, without crossing a border--or pausing at a stoplight--we were in a different world.
— Harry Shattuck, in The old and the new of Delhi: Within city, it's a whole other world, Chicago Tribune1, 4 May 2006
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
jean cocteau— Jean Cocteau, Le Rappel á l'ordre (1926)
A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won, Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye, Obliged to triumph in this legacy.
— Edward Howard, The British Princes (1669), p. 96. See also Boswell, Life of Johnson (1769). European Mag., April, 1792. Steele, in the Spectator. The lines are thought to be a forgery of William Henry Ireland's.
The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths.
thorstein veblen— Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899)
