admiration Quotes

Lady beware. Fan not the harmless glow Of admiration into ardent love, Lean not with red curled smiling lips above The flickering spark of sinless flame, and blow, Lest in the sudden waking of desire Thou, like the child, shalt perish in the fire.

If you are doing a piece about somebody, even if you admire them tremendously and express that in the piece, express that admiration, if they're not used to being written about, if they're civilians, they're not used to seeing themselves through other people's eyes. So you will always see them from a slightly different angle than they see themselves, and they feel a little betrayed by that.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Some seek fame cause they need validation,<br />Some say hating is confused admiration.

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.

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

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

He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him.

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

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

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

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.

Respect, admiration and trust equals love.

What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven.

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.

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

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.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness.

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

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.