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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. -- Victor Hugo
The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror. -- Kinky Friedman
I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses. -- Cuba Gooding, Jr.
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it. -- Walter Bagehot
I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice. -- Elia Kazan
I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman. -- Katherine Dunham
To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring. -- Nick Cannon
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. -- Christian Morgenstern
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. -- Timothy Radcliffe
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. -- Walter Bagehot
If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring. -- Zoe Saldana
I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too. -- Norman Rockwell
I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can. -- Lee Kuan Yew
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day. -- Mary MacLane
You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country. -- Guglielmo Marconi
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. -- Jean Kerr
My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. -- Yo-Yo Ma
Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting, -- Andrea Illy
To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light. -- Edmund Waller
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . . -- Andy Warhol
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. -- Albert Einstein
That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present. -- Lauren Miller
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us into the realms of mystery... we must be pure and simple like children, capable of admiring, being astonished, of marveling, and being enchanted by the divine gestures of love and closeness we witness. -- Pope John Paul II
No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey. -- Liev Schreiber
I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view. -- Sebastian Thrun
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea. -- Leonard Susskind
I used to think of George Michael as being mechanical, like a scientist in a white coat, working in a laboratory, creating perfect harmonies, and all the while I was secretly admiring him. -- Boy George
What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen. -- Stanley Donen
You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role. -- Susan Egan
I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us. -- Peter Capaldi
There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. But you also end up in the company of people you don't admire, including some rather dodgy politicians. -- Ian Mckellen
I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring. -- Naturi Naughton
I admire your capacity for admiring. -- Jonathan Franzen
No person loving or admiring himself is alone. -- Theodor Reik
I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices. -- Bias of Priene
Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind. -- Madame de Stael
You're mad cause my style you're admiring, Don't be mad...UPS is hiring -- Craig Mack
When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers. -- Sanober Khan
I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can. -- Nellie McKay
A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else. -- Alex Flinn
When admiring human accomplishments we should not confusethe achievements of the few for the capacity of the many. -- Geoffroy Birtz
How can you learn more? By admiring what you've done right? Or by studying what you've done wrong? -- Ron Kaufman
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I felt my true, unworthy self to be far away from his clutching grasp, hidden from his admiring gaze. -- Vanessa Diffenbaugh
When I see a car I've designed going down the street and somebody admiring it, that's a nice feeling. -- Henrik Fisker
Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring. -- Julia Glass
This is why it is important never to pick or smell flowers, and to always wear headgear when admiring them. -- Brian South
Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard. -- Johnny Carson
I remember my friends at primary and secondary school admiring my work and even paying me money for some of my pieces. -- St. Lucia
What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance. -- Tom Ford
They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them. -- Anne Sexton
Satan had been making admiring remarks about certain of the Creator's sparkling industries -- remarks which, being read between the lines, were sarcasms. -- Mark Twain
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity. -- T. S. Eliot
I stood before the canvas, admiring what Emma had unleashed. She'd gone back to the one place that would always be waiting for her. -- Rebecca Donovan
You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary. -- Simon Pegg
Benny gave her an admiring look. He had never heard a woman swear so much in such a short time. He thought it sounded delightful. -- Jonas Jonasson
I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance. -- Thomas Haden Church
The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellent, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents. -- William Stolzenburg
When you stop admiring yourself and let the eyes of the heart open your vision to vast other worlds then all you do, will become admirable -- Rumi
I wouldn't mind being taller, because when I'm in the company of people who are absurdly tall, there's something about them that I can't help admiring. -- Steve Albini
I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting. -- Saffron Mello Castro
Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature. -- Byron Ortiz
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring. -- John Herschel
A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else. -- Arthur Smith
I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion. -- Alan Moore
Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch. -- Jean Giraudoux
It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur. -- Madame de Stael
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances. -- Max Euwe
Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. -- Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012) -- Nigel Hey
Improve yourself. You can become what you admire most in life. By admiring the quality of excellence in other people, and practicing that same quality, you too can become exceptional. -- Mark F. LaMoure
I grew up admiring Phil Mickelson. He loves competing, and he loves the fans' support, similar to me. In terms of my playing style, Steve Stricker and I are similar. -- Matt Kuchar
Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration. -- Timothy Morton
... I watched in astonishment, Jess reached up and cupped Miss Georgia's breasts in her hands, giving them an appraising squeeze and admiring nod. A moment later, Miss Georgia returned the gesture... -- Jefferson Bass
To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire. -- Carolyn Wells
It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams. -- Kelley Armstrong
ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young. -- Ambrose Bierce
I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you. -- Jasper Fforde
God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were they capable of any passion, would be filled with envy at his lot. -- Pope Pius X
It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians. -- Richard Ingrams
The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way? -- Philip Yancey

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