He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I’ve met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet – I just shut up and bow down.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

I don’t like freeloaders; I don’t like people who are negative.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.