Quotes about Admiration

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. Votes: 5

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life. Votes: 5

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. Votes: 4

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. Votes: 4

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure. Votes: 4

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration. Votes: 4

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Votes: 4

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases Votes: 3

Admiration and familiarity are strangers. Votes: 3

Admiration spoils all from infancy. Votes: 3

Admiration is the basis of ignorance. Votes: 3

Fools admire, but men of sense approve. Votes: 3

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision. Votes: 3

You always admire what you really don't understand. Votes: 3

Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient. Votes: 3

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living. Votes: 3

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen Votes: 3

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. Votes: 3

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious. Votes: 3

Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us. Votes: 3

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. Votes: 3

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last. Votes: 3

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed. Votes: 3

Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross. Votes: 3

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. Votes: 3

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years. Votes: 3

Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does. Votes: 3

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. Votes: 3

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened. Votes: 3

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. Votes: 3

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners. Votes: 3

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. Votes: 3

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. Votes: 3

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree. Votes: 3

A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts. Votes: 3

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business. Votes: 3

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. Votes: 3

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. Votes: 3

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. Votes: 3

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. Votes: 3

The people hung upon His words - that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Admiration is fleeting. Love is eternal. Votes: 3

We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. Votes: 3

If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false. Votes: 3

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. Votes: 3

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done. Votes: 3

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!' Votes: 3

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains. Votes: 3

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate. Votes: 3

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture. Votes: 3

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. Votes: 3

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. Votes: 3

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world. Votes: 3

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. Votes: 3

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor. Votes: 3

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. Votes: 2

Ignorance is the mother of admiration Votes: 1

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. Votes: 1

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God. Votes: 1

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Votes: 1

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Votes: 1

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why Votes: 1

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. Votes: 1

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. Votes: 1

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it Votes: 1

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs. Votes: 1

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something I don't know where I would be without it Votes: 1

Maybe you are the cool generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration Votes: 1

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration Votes: 1

Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration. Votes: 1

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of. Votes: 1

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy. Votes: 1

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job. Votes: 1

To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business. Votes: 1

This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear. Votes: 1

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy. Votes: 1

Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde's books in a bookshop makes me smile. Votes: 1

I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished. Votes: 1

I shall always esteem it not much to live in a city where the laws do less than men, because that fatherland is desirable where possessions and friends can be securely enjoyed, not where they can be easily taken from you, and friends for few of thems Votes: 1

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil. Votes: 1

Hating' is displace admiration. Votes: 0

Self-admiration giveth much consolation. Votes: 0

Worship is admiration becoming adoration. Votes: 0

Respect, admiration and trust equals love. Votes: 0

I learned from admiration and osmosis. Votes: 0

Ignorance is the mother of admiration. Votes: 0

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. Votes: 0

I have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt. Votes: 0

Talent is an art of gaining admiration! Votes: 0

Distance is a great promoter of admiration Votes: 0

We live by admiration, hope and love. Votes: 0

There are charms made only for distant admiration. Votes: 0

Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. Votes: 0

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence Votes: 0

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise. Votes: 0

Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love. Votes: 0

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless. Votes: 0

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge. Votes: 0

It's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration. Votes: 0

I encourage all Americans to express admiration and appreciation to fathers. Votes: 0

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Votes: 0

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration. Votes: 0

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. Votes: 0

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity. Votes: 0

Life is too short to waste on the admiration of one man. Votes: 0

Haters possess misplaced admiration; your life reflects unmanifest desires of their heart. Votes: 0

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly. Votes: 0

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. Votes: 0

Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation. Votes: 0

Some seek fame cause they need validation, Some say hating is confused admiration. Votes: 0

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. Votes: 0

It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love. Votes: 0

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration. Votes: 0

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe... Votes: 0

She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it. Votes: 0

It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together. Votes: 0

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god. Votes: 0

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. Votes: 0

Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them. Votes: 0

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection Votes: 0

Apparently, in the eyes of the law, my admiration of Justin Bieber is creepy. Votes: 0

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. Votes: 0

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life. Votes: 0

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners. Votes: 0

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference. Votes: 0

Santiago Martinez Delgado made a Master piece in the Colombian Congress building worthy of admiration ... Votes: 0

The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration. Votes: 0

Do not be jealous of others' good qualities, but out of admiration adopt them yourself. Votes: 0

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. Votes: 0

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do. Votes: 0

I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed. Votes: 0

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. Votes: 0

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration. Votes: 0

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt. Votes: 0

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference. Votes: 0

I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. Votes: 0

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones. Votes: 0

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style. Votes: 0

Escalators are the offspring of elevators and stairs. Love is the progeny of passion and admiration. Votes: 0

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave. Votes: 0

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life. Votes: 0

I know that great gifts come at a price, and that not all talent inspires admiration. Votes: 0

My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be Votes: 0

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist. Votes: 0

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. Votes: 0

My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top. Votes: 0

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. Votes: 0

Express your admiration for the traits, possessions or accomplishments of your customer. Little things mean a lot. Votes: 0

A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him. Votes: 0

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. Votes: 0

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line. Votes: 0

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength. Votes: 0

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious. Votes: 0

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness. Votes: 0

His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me. Votes: 0

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. Votes: 0

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference. Votes: 0

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror. Votes: 0

I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years. Votes: 0

All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence. Votes: 0

It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration. Votes: 0

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence. Votes: 0

Respecting others for doing their best shows your admiration, and you will enjoy a sense of humble pride. Votes: 0

There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other. Votes: 0

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live. Votes: 0

Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate. Votes: 0

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited. Votes: 0

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency. Votes: 0

The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration. Votes: 0

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love. Votes: 0

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. Votes: 0

Many women have tried to compare to you, but they are only flawed imitations. You deserve the worlds admiration. Votes: 0

I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. Votes: 0

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man. Votes: 0

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section. Votes: 0

The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown. Votes: 0

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them. Votes: 0

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration. Votes: 0

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration. Votes: 0

But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes? Votes: 0

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love. Votes: 0

Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly. Votes: 0

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. Votes: 0

...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines. Votes: 0

Life is an endless sea of admiration, in constant collision with those who have aspired, to feel inspired once again. Votes: 0

To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers. Votes: 0

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible. Votes: 0

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration. Votes: 0

Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them. Votes: 0

I have immense admiration for the writer/directors and director/actors who just seamlessly do both jobs at the same time. Votes: 0

Of the lady's sensations they remained a little in doubt; but that the gentleman was overflowing with admiration was evident enough. Votes: 0

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. Votes: 0

I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning. Votes: 0

What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone's company you love them. Votes: 0

It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration. Votes: 0

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter. Votes: 0

I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years. Votes: 0

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure. Votes: 0

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart. Votes: 0

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it. Votes: 0

As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value. Votes: 0

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour. Votes: 0

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes." Votes: 0

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues. Votes: 0

The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement. Votes: 0

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values. Votes: 0

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect. Votes: 0

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. Votes: 0

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate. Votes: 0

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed. Votes: 0

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate Votes: 0

I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked. Votes: 0

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection! Votes: 0

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way. Votes: 0

Our bodies are temples of the Lord. We should earn respect and admiration for our hearts, not for showing skin to look sexy. Votes: 0

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future. Votes: 0

In the reflected gaze of his (her husband's) steady admiration, she saw the face of the girl he had fallen in love with. Votes: 0

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some Votes: 0

I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration. Votes: 0

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so. Votes: 0

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. Votes: 0

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. Votes: 0

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task. Votes: 0

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts. Votes: 0

I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine. Votes: 0

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Votes: 0

Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of unrealistic comparisons. Votes: 0

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. Votes: 0

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him. Votes: 0

Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems. Votes: 0

I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Сorea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz field. Votes: 0

I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways. Votes: 0

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration. Votes: 0

You're a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone. Votes: 0

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. Votes: 0

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day. Votes: 0

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another. Votes: 0

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. Votes: 0

Love is an admiration that comes with patience. Lust is an admiration that comes with impatience. In all, admiration is common but patience is not! Votes: 0

I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science. Votes: 0

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own. Votes: 0

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it. Votes: 0

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green. Votes: 0

I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more devout. Votes: 0

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action. Votes: 0

The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward. Votes: 0

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires. Votes: 0

Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss? Votes: 0

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth. Votes: 0

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed Votes: 0

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities. Votes: 0

The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy. Votes: 0

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children. Votes: 0

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion. Votes: 0

You develop a kind of admiration for criminal genius and ruthless efficiency, and you forget that the criminal empire is built on human pain and suffering. Votes: 0

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. Votes: 0

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities. Votes: 0

No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated. Votes: 0

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving. Votes: 0

While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places. Votes: 0

I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts. Votes: 0

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive. Votes: 0

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them. Votes: 0

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment. Votes: 0

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should. Votes: 0

But she was already in. Gareth couldn't help but stand back in admiration. Hyacinth Bridgerton was clearly a natural born athlete. Either that or a cat burglar. Votes: 0

A crush is just as simple as admiration. You get attracted to another person and time can allow feelings to grow more into something more than that. Votes: 0

Hating' is displaced admiration; a by-product of low emotional intelligence. It originates from the hater's inability to affirm, in your life, the non-manifest desires of their own. Votes: 0

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration. Votes: 0

Columbia students called me a baby killer, but remained silent for Ahmadinejad. I'm not sure if that was out of fear for the Iranian president or admiration. Votes: 0

Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration and respect. Votes: 0

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. Votes: 0

We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures. Votes: 0

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity. Votes: 0

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him. Votes: 0

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose. Votes: 0

O Woman - Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don't belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune. Votes: 0

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary. Votes: 0

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave. Votes: 0

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy. Votes: 0

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it. Votes: 0

A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration. Votes: 0

How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind. Votes: 0

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it. Votes: 0

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done. Votes: 0

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy. Votes: 0

Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism. Votes: 0

I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night. Votes: 0

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them. Votes: 0

My dad had the greatest admiration for MacArthur when they were working together in Washington before the Philippines. And Dad used to talk with absolute awe about MacArthur's brain. Votes: 0

Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself. Votes: 0

I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady. Votes: 0

I have a lot of respect and admiration for someone like Cate Blanchett, find Emma Thompson wonderful, Meryl Streep inspiring, Juliette Binoche full of light and Catherine Deneuve incredible. Votes: 0

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues. Votes: 0

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball. Votes: 0

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness. Votes: 0

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities. Votes: 0

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. Votes: 0

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant. Votes: 0

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem. Votes: 0

What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live. Votes: 0

What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy. Votes: 0

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration? Votes: 0

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York. Votes: 0

What I really found was that the one similarity between Covert Affairs and Fair Game is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy. Votes: 0

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure. Votes: 0

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing. Votes: 0

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family. Votes: 0

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. Votes: 0

I have a great admiration for English actors and actresses and have used them at every opportunity over the years, but now I won't have to import them to New York Votes: 0

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion. Votes: 0

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want a woman who is better than I am; a woman who will compel me to bow my head in admiration. Votes: 0

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration. Votes: 0

Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration. Votes: 0

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration. Votes: 0

Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature. Votes: 0

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration. Votes: 0

No one reaches the Oval Office without a great deal of admiration for the institution - and himself - so it's unsurprising that sitting presidents favor the biographies of former presidents. Votes: 0

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order. Votes: 0

People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration. Votes: 0

Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration. Votes: 0

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within. Votes: 0

Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration. Votes: 0

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status. Votes: 0

Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred? Votes: 0

I'm in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it's difficult to analyze love when you're in it. Votes: 0

The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference. Votes: 0

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration. Votes: 0

Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite. Votes: 0

I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands. Votes: 0

His effect on men is one of interest and curiosity, not of admiration and loyalty. His power is the power of gifts, not character. Men watch him, but do not follow him. Votes: 0

A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine. Votes: 0

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge. Votes: 0

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world. Votes: 0

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions. Votes: 0

It`s important to know where you`ve come from so that you can know where you`re going. I probably chose my profession because I was seeking approval, adulation, admiration and affection. Votes: 0

The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail. Votes: 0

Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw. Votes: 0

Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything. Votes: 0

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind. Votes: 0

In fact, the Alejandro video...is a celebration of my love and appreciation for the gay community, my admiration of their bravery, and their love for one another, their courage in their relationships. Votes: 0

. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd. Votes: 0

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one. Votes: 0

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. Votes: 0

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life. Votes: 0

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration. Votes: 0

Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires? Votes: 0

You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship. Votes: 0

The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration. Votes: 0

All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration. Votes: 0

Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things. Votes: 0

Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war. Votes: 0

My son is such a lover, such a caretaker and so funny. He's seven, and he genuinely cracks me up. And my daughter is a fearless powerhouse. They fill me with wonder and admiration. Votes: 0

There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once. Votes: 0

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh. Votes: 0

To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction. Votes: 0

Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful. Votes: 0

Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life. Votes: 0

Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth. Votes: 0