#admire

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

— William Congreve

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Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill. ↗

— Leo Durocher

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I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#almost #concentrate #discipline #else #everything

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#find #form #frank #glamour #had

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#books #classroom #come #desk #heaped

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#also #because #books #boy #good

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#books #i #like #lot #reading

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#drama #ending #generally #love #most

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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