“I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.” YearsMadeEndsBeliefReligiousEventsExerciseTheologyAdmireThirtyDispositionEvaluateThirty YearsReligious Belief Book:Expositions and Developments Source: Expositions and Developments
“Among the many things that profoundly impress me about the Dalai Lama, quite high up on the list is his ability to say "I don't know". I've often wished that other people in prominent positions wouldn't feel the compulsion to have an answer for everything and would feel equally free to say "I don't know." It's a sign of wisdom to know that you don't know and a sign of stupidity to think that you know everything. I admire it enormously in him, and wonder why so few people in leading positions reach that stage.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsAbilityAnswersWonderStagePositionStupidityListsAdmireImpressCompulsionProminentLamaDalai Author:David Steindl-Rast
“Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.” PurposeEffortAdmireVainSoleAdmire You Author:Dave Pelzer
“To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came to admire Joyce even more because he never ceased working, those words and the transubstantiation of words obsessed him. He was a broken man at the end of his life, unaware that Ulysses would be the number one book of the twentieth century and, for that matter, the twenty-first.” MenFirstsBookEndsMatterWould BeNumbersCenturyBrokenLettersTwentiesPrivilegeEnormousAdmireObsessedTwentieth CenturyJoyceUlyssesBroken ManTransubstantiation Author:Edna O'Brien
“He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.” HeartLastsAnimalLeaderDogBeatsWorthyPartnersDevotionAdmireVanityFaithfulHis LoveMy DogPuppyDefendersHomageAnimal LoveBeing FaithfulCanineDog LoverColossalDog TrainingPoodlesPuppy DogPet AnimalsCat And DogPet DogDog LovePet LossDog RescueGreat DogPoodle DogsCute DogGreat PetMan And DogInspirational DogCat DogAnimal LoverDogs And LifeAnimal RescueDog LossI Love My DogFunny PuppyLove My DogDog GriefPuppies And LovePet GriefFaithful DogsDog HeavenHeaven And DogsTerriersPets In HeavenDog Best FriendLabrador DogsGrooming DogsOwning A PetDog WalkingDog MemorialLabradorsWild DogsBeagles The DogPet MemorialSleeping DogsFaithful Love Author:Agnes Repplier
“I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire him tremendously. Some years ago, he was in New York, and he gave an interview with The Times, and what he said was this: "In my work, I try to capture the closeness of the everyday and the distance of myth. Because, without the closeness, you can't be moved, and without the distance, you can't be amazed." Isn't that extraordinary?” TryingYearsSaidNew YorkMetsDirectorsYears AgoTheaterMovedDistanceExtraordinaryEverydayMythAdmireParisInterviewsCapturePeterAmazedBrooksCloseness Author:Paul Auster
“Margaret Thatcher - a woman I greatly admire - once said that she was not content to manage the decline of a great nation. Neither am I. I am prepared to lead the resurgence of a great nation.” SaidNationsPreparedAdmireManageDeclineGreat NationsResurgence Author:Carly Fiorina
“I heard that the guy who invented the Jehovah's Witnesses was a Mason.That kind of turned me off, because when something's mysterious, all you can do is be scared of it. "He's a Mason? Ugh. It must be evil!" I didn't know much about it, so I was scared. Now I actually admire those guys - they're pretty talented. They founded a lot of the world that we look at today.” KnowsWorldLooksKindTodayGuyEvilCan DoHeardScaredAdmireMysteriousWitnessJehovahMasonsUgh Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“Even though I really admire what Beyonce does, and she's probably got one of the best live shows in the world - honestly! - that's so not my style.” WorldDoeShowsStyleHonestlyAdmireBeyonce Author:Grimes
“I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.” ClothesNakedAdmireEmperorNew Clothes Author:Patricia McConnell
“The friends I have, and the people whom I admire, are people who have an understanding of the conditions under which we live, and have a humanist sense of the world. If that's lacking in my understanding of a person's negotiation of the world, I can't be close with that person.” PeopleIfsWorldPersonsI CanUnderstandingConditionsAdmireHumanistLackingNegotiation Author:Claudia Rankine
“I know that a lot of songwriters write about a break up. It's a really popular topic. I think heartbreak is the number one thing people write about. I could say that's narcissistic somehow because they want everybody to admire how pained they are. But I actually do think there's something beautiful and uplifting about knowing that you're not the only one who is experiencing or has experienced that kind of devastating loss. Everyone's experienced that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantWritingKindBeautifulLossNumbersBreakKnowingOne ThingAdmireUpliftingSongwritersTopicsNarcissisticSomething BeautifulReally PopularDevastating Loss Author:Mirah
“I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox, somehow.” SeemsObjectivesAdmireToolbox Author:Gail Simone
“The thing that inspires me about Daniel Radcliffe and the thing that I admire the most about him is that he's had a level of fame thrust upon him that's relatively unheard of.” LevelsInspireFameAdmireThrustUnheard Author:Matthew Lewis
“I write first drafts feverishly fast, and then I spend years editing. It's not that sentence-by-sentence perfectionist technique some writers I admire use. I need to see the thing, in some form, and then work with it over and over and over until it makes sense to me - until its concerns approach me, until its themes come to my attention. At that editing stage, the story picks itself and it's just up to me to see it, to find it. If I've done a good job, what it all means will force me to confront it in further edits.” IfsNeedsWritingYearsFirstsMeanDoneStoriesUseJobsFormForceAttentionStageApproachPicksConcernSentencesTechniqueAdmireMake SenseThemeEditingGood JobEditsPerfectionist Author:Porochista Khakpour
“There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature run this risk constantly, flirting with destruction, not just humiliation or embarrassment. It's a spectacle that we can't help but find compelling, and it involves a certain level of courage that we sneakily admire, perhaps.” WellsMomentsHelpingBigsRunningCertainLiteratureLevelsRiskDestructionAdmireCompellingThreateningHumiliationFlirtingEmbarrassment Author:Walter Kirn
“Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.” WaySometimesSeemsPoetObsessionAdmireLandscapePeculiar Author:Anna Journey
“There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.” PeopleTryingSelfMy OwnQualityEthicsAdmireWork EthicGreat WorkGreat Work Ethic Author:Big Sean
“I think that "Arabs coming out in droves" is so violative Jewish values that non-Jews admire so much about Jewish people throughout history, of welcoming the stranger, of standing up for the outsider, of defending the marginalized. This was classic us against them. This was the narrowest and meanest of politics, to which Jews, sadly and tragically, around the world have been subjected to.” PeopleThinkingWorldHas BeensValuesStandingJewStrangerAdmireWelcomeAround The WorldClassicComing OutOutsidersMarginalizedJewish Values Author:Mark Shields
“Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that in some meaningful way. It doesn't come easy to me. I really admire people who do it with acuity, but I don't, and for me it takes the process of working on a book for years to do any thinking that I feel accomplishes anything. I don't do it off the cuff well.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsWritingYearsWellsBookEasyProcessParticularAccomplishMeaningfulAdmireReach OutWriting A BookObsessiveCuffs Author:Lucy Corin
“I admire narcissism in Momus and others who "own" it and use it as a way to explore ideas/themselves and also as a form of humor. I don't think of myself as narcissistic, but I'm definitely incredibly self absorbed. I guess I wonder if seeing the world through the lens of yourself is necessarily less valid than other ways of thinking/seeing though.” IfsThinkingWorldWayIdeasSelfUseFormWonderSeeingAdmireNarcissismLensesWay Of ThinkingNarcissisticSeeing The WorldSelf Absorbed Author:Marie Calloway
“I admire self-awareness more than probably any other quality, and I think in terms of what qualities are "good" in a person, it's a mostly subjective opinion, so I can't see a reason to think that self-absorption is inherently a bad thing.” ThinkingPersonsI CanSelfReasonTermQualityOpinionAwarenessSelf AwarenessAdmireBad ThingsSubjectiveAbsorptionSelf Absorption Author:Marie Calloway
“I admire Joyce Maynard a lot, specifically her memoir "At Home in the World." Her writing is beautiful and fascinating and seemed to give me validation to the idea that I could write validly in earnest about my life with (my) very feminine point of view, and also that I could unapologetically explore the bad traits of my character (which I find to be more interesting to explore than the good traits), as well as explore other concepts that interest me like private vs public personas, age gap relationships, etc.” WorldGivingWritingWellsIdeasCharacterHomeAgeBeautifulInterestInterestingViewsConceptsGive MePoint Of ViewMemoirAdmireEtcFascinatingFeminineGapsTraitsEarnestPersonaValidationJoyceAge Gap Author:Marie Calloway
“I love Leonardo DiCaprio. He just makes really great films with great directors. He has great relationships with directors but also has a great social awareness. I think he balances his work with his responsibilities to his world, the environment, things like that very well. I'm very impressed by him and I admire him a lot. And other actors like Joaquin Phoenix, I just look at him and marvel at his unexpectedness, just his work really.” ThinkingWorldWellsLooksFilmActorsSocialResponsibilityEnvironmentAwarenessBalanceDirectorsAdmireImpressedReally GreatPhoenixGreat FilmLeonardoGreat RelationshipSocial AwarenessUnexpectedness Author:Douglas Booth
“Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.” IfsTurnsStuffWatchesIntentionAdmire Author:Robert Downey, Jr.
“I'm not going to impugn anyone's integrity. I'm not going to attack their character. And, in fact, I will happily praise both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio as men who I admire, as people who I'm not going to go personal with them.” PeopleMenCharacterFactsTrumpIntegrityPraiseAdmireMarcos Author:Ted Cruz
“There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned greatly from his writings on Mann.” WayWritingImportantCriticsAdmireI've LearnedReeds Author:Philip Kitcher
“When I look around the world and see so many countries turning people away, I think it is terrible. And I know that these are all issues that Germany is culturally dealing with in terms of integration but it is just something that I deeply admire.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldLooksCountryTermIssuesTerribleAdmireAround The WorldGermanyIntegration Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“I think bullying comes from a person's feeling of self-worth, and so what you do is you find out where you are in a totem pole, and you may slide in somewhere in the middle. So you say, "OK, well there's all these other people who I respect and admire, and there's all these people below me, so I'm going to put on them this sense that they're inferior and I'm going to belittle them, and that's going to raise my stature."” PeopleThinkingWellsMayPersonsSelfFeelingsMiddleRaisesSelf WorthAdmireWhere You AreBullyingInferiorsSlidesStatureBelittleTotems Author:Rib Hillis
“The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.” RealFilmActorsDifficultActingShouldersAdmireThings To DoTheoreticalDifficult Things Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“I don't admire how much a person has, I admire what a person does with what they have and I think that defines you most.” ThinkingPersonsDoeAdmireDefine You Author:Aeriel Miranda
“I admire many women that have come before me, heavy influencers such as Oprah, such as Beyoncé, and I'm witnessing the fruit of their work and experiencing their legacy now and they're not even close to the finish line.” LinesFruitHeavyAdmireLegacyFinish Line Author:Aeriel Miranda
“I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your fault if you couldn't make it." There is a certain injustice in that.” IfsWellsDoneCertainFaultsInjusticeAdmireNarrative Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter
“You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.” IfsThinkingTryingStillsPlayBodyCertainLanguageRedMeetingsHorribleAdmireTendenciesBody LanguageMeeting Someone Author:Rose Leslie
“As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.” PersonsBeautifulStrongIntelligentActressesAdmireFeisty Author:Evangeline Lilly
“Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.” PersonsMotherActingAdmire Author:Evangeline Lilly
“Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.” PeopleKindPerceptionWeaknessAdmireGenreSurvivedTents Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“I grew up in an apartment my whole life. It was just me, my mom, and my brother - she supported us. And we've always liked driving through rich neighborhoods, especially around Christmas. We would always admire the wealth. I always had this strange feeling with it.” WholeFeelingsWealthRichStrangeBrotherGrewMomGrew UpMy MomWhole LifeDrivingAdmireMy BrotherNeighborhoodApartment Author:George Clarke
“I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.” WorldGivingAttentionWalkingAdmire Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.” WayShowsValuesPolicyAspectWestWesternAdmirePollsWestern Values Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“Parenthood is a school for humility. We can't choose the precise traits of our children, and that is morally important. It teaches us what William May, a theologian whom I greatly admire, calls "an openness to the unbidden."” MayChildrenImportantSchoolTeachHumilityOur ChildrenAdmireOpennessParenthoodTraitsPreciseTheologian Author:Michael Sandel
“Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it.” LanguageVoiceEffortPeriodsUniqueAdmireAdamFavouriteInventingUnique Voices Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“I want people to laugh with me and Paraguay and Newfoundland, but I don't want to laugh at them. I hope in my books at the end of the day you come across with the impression that I really admire both of these places.” PeopleWantBookEndsLaughingImpressionAdmireThe End Of The DayParaguay Author:John Gimlette
“I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.” WorldLittlesBitsNaturalLittle BitAdmireNatural World Author:Julia Kent
“I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.” PeopleWorldProudCitizensHonorFellowsGratefulExtraordinaryIncrediblesAdmireCitizenshipAssembly Author:Angelina Jolie
“When I encountered "The Lady of Shallot" (to take a "for instance" allusion from the many in the book, this one from the "Etiology" section) it was still considered a "great poem." What does that poem - or rather a particular presentation of that poem (hey, admire this!) - do to a young woman?” DoeStillsBookYoungParticularAdmireInstanceHeyYoung WomenSectionsPresentationAllusion Author:Laura Mullen
“I don't think it's "true" to sit and play old school heavy metal just so that you can send it to Fenriz or get a pat on the back from the guys you admire and hang out with.” ThinkingPlaySchoolGuyHeavyAdmireHanging OutMetalsOld SchoolHeavy Metal Author:Mat McNerney
“Even somebody like Bill Clinton, who I happen to admire very much, the second he was out of office, I remember, he was interview in Rolling Stone and he said he thought we should have legalized marijuana. And I thought, gosh, if only you were in some sort of position to affect change in the last eight years where you could have done something about that.” IfsShouldYearsSaidDoneHappensLastsRememberPositionOfficeStonesShould HaveBillsClintonEightAdmireInterviewsMarijuanaRollingRolling Stones Author:Bill Maher
“I admire Chris Martin. Coldplay have made some wonderful records for the genre they're involved in, but I would consider them to be more of a pop act. The music is much more cerebral than it is animalistic.” MadeRecordsWonderfulInvolvedMusic IsPopsAdmireGenreCerebralAnimalistic Author:Ian Astbury
“I admire people who have and show "class." Coach Pat Riley has class! I can only hope other people say the same about me.” PeopleI CanShowsLeadershipClassCoachesAdmire Author:Bradford Winters