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Would certainly not have admired Jesus Christ and he would have been horrified by St Paul - does — Alasdair MacIntyre

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it. — Stella McCartney

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. — Bertrand Russell

I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out. — Joel Coen

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower. — Tom Robbins

Honesty is admired, and starves. — Juvenal

Terry Gilliam is someone I'd always deeply admired. I saw his films when I was a child. — Gwendoline Christie

I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to. — Patricia McBride

One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents. — Jon Voight

[...] Buddhism has been so much admired mainly for what it is not. — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions. — Martin Winterkorn

A pity you were not born a woman in this life, Little King of Lesser Land, for you seek only to please and to be admired by all. — Sharon Kay Penman

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear! — Jules Verne

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking. — Paul Dirac

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it. — Aimee Bender

I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her. — Fred Melamed

She feels and she cries. It is to be admired. — James Frey

My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion. — Don Cornelius

I loved being admired by Richard. It was the kind of admiration that mattered to me. I felt adored, worshipped. — Elizabeth Taylor

I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing. — Jack Kirby

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated. — John Ralston Saul

I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice. — Malcolm McDowell

If you are not admired no one will take the trouble to disapprove. — Truman Capote

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it. — Witold Gombrowicz

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death. — Harold Brodkey

A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity. — John Cena

I've always been admired as a musician and painter but not spiritual writer, and that's why God's an artist, not priest. — Robin Sacredfire

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used. — Henry David Thoreau

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired. — John Milius

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
- Seneca — Seneca.

The most arrogant and admired people have a special kind of ignorance that the ignorant cannot see. — Robin Sacredfire

No doubt, a father he is the most respected man in our lives, the most admired person. He is the protector, and the guardian of our lives. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero. — Dawn French

The human quality Degas most admired was endurance. — John Berger

Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women. — Arthur Desmond

I have always admired most those who lead with their eyes, like Mary Anning, for they seem more aware of the world and its workings. — Tracy Chevalier

I recognized one of the qualities I most admired in my wife: the beautiful big handwriting of the illiterate that she was. Darling, — Patrick Modiano

The most callous of her guests admired her as young Rome applauded some gladiator who could die smiling. — Honore De Balzac

Unsurprisingly, planning was most admired and advocated at the political extremes. — Tony Judt

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people. — Jeannette Walls

As I did, there, in perfect condition, to be admired by five sets of wondering eyes, was an enormous, glistening, moist, chocolate cake. — Brother Andrew

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired ... they're all incredibly well-read. — Steve Toltz

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. — Aeschylus

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him. — Leon Askin

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman. — Jimmy Carter

Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of style. — Aerin Lauder

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance. — Seneca The Younger

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own. — Saul Leiter

I've always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity. — Jim Butcher

The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten. — Roman Payne

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid. — Chris Bauer

Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453. — Stephen Kinzer

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant. — Paulo Coelho

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics — Hunter S. Thompson

Selfishness has never been admired. — C.S. Lewis

Liberality in gifts and expenditure which, since his followers lived off it, was extolled as the most admired attribute of a noble. — Barbara W. Tuchman

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. — Sandra Bullock

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him. — Magnus Carlsen

He wanted to say that he yearned to accomplish something extraordinary, to be admired like a man riding at the head of a great procession. — Ken Liu

Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. — Edmund Waller

He admired this too: their ability to preserve joy at any cost, the way prehistoric man might have preserved fire. — Daniel Alarcon

Nature will not be admired by proxy. — Winston Churchill

Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue. — John Ortberg

Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired. — Walter Darby Bannard

There might be some weirdness mixed in with being admired like that, but I think there's more good. — Cassandra Clare

I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years ... appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American. — Howard Frank Mosher

She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with — Angela Carter