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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
While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.
daniel j. boorstin— Ch. 1, part 2: The Economy of Nature, p. 41
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.
I always admired the God-given glory of his voice — that unmistakable special timbre from the bottom up to the very top of the tenor range. ... I also loved his wonderful sense of humor.
Luciano Pavarotti— Placido Domingo
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.
— Ch. 29 (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974))
Rokossovsky was an imposing figure, tall, very good-looking, and well dressed; I understand he was a bachelor and was much admired by ladies.
konstantin rokossovsky— Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
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
Few men have been admired by their own households.
Michel de Montaigne— Michel de Montaigne, Essais (c. 1592), Book III, ch. 2, "Of Repentance"
— Variant translation: Few men are admired by their servants.
"Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved," asserted the Tin Man. "Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty."
l. frank baum— The Tin Woodman of Oz, Chapter 2, "The Heart of the Tin Woodman" (1918)
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).
Absently he fingered the neat slice across the shoulder of his coat. Good shooting, at a moving target only half seen through the trees. He could have admired it more had he not been the target.
robert jordan— Matrim Cauthon
An example of this way of thinking is an exchange that took place when someone told Goethe that he admired him for his genius, towering over German intellectual life like a gigantic mountain, to which Goethe replied that "great mountains are found only in mountainous landscapes." The traditional history of art is concerned exclusively which such mountain peaks, and often, as Goethe critically pointed out, they are not even seen in relation to each other.
asger jorn— Jorn's remarks on the publication of the book Thidrek of Folk Art (1948)
I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul ; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit and wanted to shoot myself.
— March 1836 (The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s)
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)
"People who make sacrifices are very much loved and admired, aren't they? " she asked, earnestly. "If the sacrifice is a true one. But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty , though perhaps it makes them harder, for we all like sympathy," and Dr. Alec sighed a patient sort of sigh.
— Louisa May Alcott, in Eight Cousins, or, The Aunt-hill (1875), p. 106
We moved from what cultural historians call a culture of character to a culture of personality. During the culture of character, what was important was the good deeds that you performed when nobody was looking. ... But at the turn of the (20th) century, when we moved into this culture of personality, suddenly what was admired was to be magnetic and charismatic.
— Susan Cain (2012) "Quiet, Please: Unleashing 'The Power Of Introverts'," NPR, January 30, 2012.
Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act III, scene 7, line 25.
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
Perhaps there is no literature in Europe that mirrors so clearly as the Portuguese, the painful conflict in the minds of people who, on the one hand, by their humanistic education, not only knew better but also more uncritically admired, ancient learning than their medieval predecessors, and, who, on the other hand, in the same epoch, were confronted with abundant proofs of the insufficiency and fallibility of that same Antiquity.
— Reijer Hooykaas, "The Portuguese Discoveries and the Rise of Modern Science" in Selected Studies in History of Science (1983)
It would look very strange, when the Commons of England are so fond of their right of sending representatives to Parliament, that it should be in the power of a sheriff, or other officer, to deprive them of that right, and yet that they should have no remedy; it is a thing to be admired at by all mankind.
— Holt, C.J., Ashby v. White (1703), 2 Raym. 954.
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
jean cocteau— Jean Cocteau, Le Rappel á l'ordre (1926)
I shall listen with great pleasure , for I too am not one to despise myths , and I am far from rejecting those that have the right tendency ; indeed I am of the same opinion as you and your admired, or rather the universally admired , Plato .
— Julian (emperor), in The Works of the Emperor Julian, Volume 2, p.345
...that 38.4% of the Hindus surveyed [in the US ] admired the religious devotion of Christians . Hindus see Christians of all denominations going to worship services on Sundays , some going to prayer meetings and Bible studies on Saturdays and other days, and Christian children going to Sunday school during the school year and Vocation Bible School during the summer .
— Paul Pathickal, in "Christ and the Hindu Diaspora", P.78
