(419 quotes found)
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them can make me laugh.”
W. H. Auden
“I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.”
Orson Scott Card
“How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to an admiring bog!”
Emily Dickinson
“Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”
Ann Landers
“The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed”
William James
“Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.”
Andrea Dworkin
“Hero-worship in the sense of expressing our unbound admiration is one thing. To obey the hero is a totally different kind of worship. There is nothing wrong in the former while the latter is no doubt a most pernicious thing. The former is man's respect for which is noble and of which the great men are only an embodiment. The latter is the serf's fealty to his lord. The former is consistent with respect, but the latter is a sign of debasement. The former does not take away one's intelligence to think and independence to act. The latter makes one perfect fool. The former involves no disaster to the state. The latter is a source of positive danger to it.”
B. R. Ambedkar
“In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“A hero is someone we can admire without apology.”
Kitty Kelley
“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”
Jean Rostand
