#admire

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. ↗

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#always #big #bigger #fool #him

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#exactly #found #how #i #just

We tend to become like those whom we admire. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#become #like #tend #those #whom

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it. ↗

— Jay Leno

#admired #allows #america #away #because

There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired. ↗

— Eric Liu

#american #artists #asian #asian american #been

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it. ↗

— Charles II

#always #could #i #i always #imitate

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#eisenhower #hero #i #most #president

I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my voice. I've never been confident about it. I think it's a little bit better now than when I first started. There are people I admire who are genuinely brilliant singers and I know the difference between what they can do and what I can do. ↗

— Gary Numan

#admire #always #been #better #better now

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

#apparently #around #beyond #corner #eye

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#admires #knowing #length #only #things