Admiration famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- Albert Einstein -
A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
-- Ann Beattie -
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
-- Ann Landers -
I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.
-- Anthony Hope -
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
-- Apuleius -
I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.
-- Ariana Franklin -
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
-- Arthur Helps -
I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.
-- Auguste Rodin -
It's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration.
-- Birdman -
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.
-- Daniel Harvey Hill -
I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.
-- David Levithan -
The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
-- Donald Knuth -
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
-- E. B. White -
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
-- Edmund Burke -
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
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.
-- Eliza Haywood -
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ...
-- Elizabeth Montagu -
Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.
-- Eric Stoltz -
Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.
-- Evan Esar -
Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.
-- Florence King -
Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.
-- Florida Scott-Maxwell -
To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.
-- Frances Trollope -
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
We always like those who admire us.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.
-- Gene Wolfe -
Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.
-- George R. R. Martin -
I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.
-- Georgette Heyer -
Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
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.
-- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola -
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.
-- Gregor Mendel -
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.
-- Hedi Slimane -
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
-- Henry Fielding -
Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.
-- Honore de Balzac -
When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
-- Idries Shah -
There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.
-- Isabelle Adjani -
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
-- Jack Vance -
It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn -
She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
-- Jeannette Walls -
Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.
-- Jeremiah Seed -
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.
-- John Astin -
Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.
-- John Howe -
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.
-- John Ruskin -
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.
-- John Steinbeck -
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.
-- Joseph Addison -
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
-- Joseph Joubert -
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
-- Joseph Priestley -
Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.
-- Julie Christie -
Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.
-- Julie Klausner -
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
-- Karl Barth -
Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.
-- Karl Donitz -
I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate
-- Kathleen Turner -
Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.
-- Kristin Cashore -
I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas -
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.
-- Lincoln Ellsworth -
I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.
-- Lisa Marie Presley -
Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.
-- LL Cool J -
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven -
I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
-- Major Owens -
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.
-- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington -
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.
-- Mary Cassatt -
I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.
-- Matthew Pearl -
Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.
-- Max Beerbohm -
My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.
-- Mercedes McCambridge -
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
-- Minna Antrim -
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.
-- N. T. Wright -
Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
-- Niklaus Wirth -
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.
-- Orville Dewey -
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
-- Oscar Wilde -
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
-- Richard Rohr -
For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.
-- Robert B. Parker -
Santiago Martinez Delgado made a Master piece in the Colombian Congress building worthy of admiration ...
-- Santiago Martinez Delgado -
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.
-- Scoot McNairy -
none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.
-- Sophie von La Roche -
I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.
-- T. S. Eliot -
Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.
-- Terry Goodkind -
All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.
-- Thomas Bernhard -
To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
-- Thomas Creech -
I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.
-- Tia Carrere -
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
-- Washington Irving -
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.
-- William Benton Clulow -
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
-- William Congreve -
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.
-- William Godwin -
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.
-- Pierre Berge -
I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Сorea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz field.
-- Richard Clayderman -
I know that great gifts come at a price, and that not all talent inspires admiration.
-- Sally O'Reilly -
As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.
-- Vivek Shraya -
I'll marry you if you admit that respect, admiration, and trust equals love.
-- Hal Hartley -
The older you've gotten, the more respect and admiration you've received.
-- Jupp Heynckes
