Best 369 quotes in «admiration quotes» category

After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

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

Bad artists always admire each others work.

Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

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

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.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

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

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

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

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

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

Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power. The admiration of the West in return only strengthened his conviction that his approach was right. But let us be clear that it was Mikhail Gorbachev, and not Boris Yeltsin, as is now widely being claimed, who first gave freedom of speech and movement to the citizens of Russia.

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.

Few men are admired by their servants.

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

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

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

I can't express how much admiration I have for women in general, who walk around in high heels, but, drag queens, oh my god.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

I am faithful up to the point of death. It's the only thing I respect. I never abandon anyone. I'm not talking about sexual relations. I'm faithful in my friendship, my admiration.

I am in awe, in admiration of the man who Gaius Julius Caesar was. I don't actually do him as the man himself. He is maybe a distant relative. It's hard to approach the real man because he is such an awesome icon.

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

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.

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

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.

I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him