The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
Ezra Pound

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
Franz Grillparzer

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
Alphonse de Lamartine

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
James Weldon Johnson

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself.
James D'arcy

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.
Robert Sheckley

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
William Congreve

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.
Dominic Chianese

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
John Heywood

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
Charles Horton Cooley

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Theophile Gautier

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.
Delphine de Girardin

To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
James Welch

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.
George Crabbe