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Quotes About Admires

The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
A Genius always admires the choices of the most Confident Fool!
~ Vishwanath S J
Many people like books because they're suspenseful or scary or touching or inspirational or because one admires the characters as if they were real people. Maybe it's only writers who like the writing.
~ Edmund White
Loyalty is a virtue everyone admires, especially the disloyal
~ Diane Johnson
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
~ Leo Rosten
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
~ Leo Rosten
The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
~ Irwin Winkler
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
~ Max Beerbohm
Alas, Max, this will pain you, I know, but you must realize the truth. There are movements far bigger than the men who make them up. As for me, I am a part of the movement. Heinrich is an officer in the boys' corps, which is headed by Baron Von Freische, whose rank is now shedding a luster upon our house, for he comes often to visit with Heinrich and Elsa, whom he much admires.
~ Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.
~ la bruyere jean de v
The one who love power becomes dictator and one who admires power becomes slave.
~ Amit Kalantri
Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
~ Leo Rosten
Guardiola signed for Roma in the summer of 2002, motivated less by the opportunity to play for a bigger club than to be coached by, and to learn from, Fabio Capello, a manager he greatly admires despite their differing approach to the game. Pep was eager to experience Capello's defensive rigour and discover his secrets in terms of how to apply pressure upon an opponent.
~ Guillem Balagué
Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.
~ James Joyce
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
~ Leo Rosten
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. Still, anything can be endured if all humanity is watching. The martyrs prove it. We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun.
~ James Salter
Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. Still, anything can be endured if all humanity is watching. The martyrs prove it. We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun.
~ James Salter
there is some sweet seduction in feeling another admires us—a notion so flattering that some return of esteem takes place without our quite being aware
~ Unknown