Best 369 quotes in «admiration quotes» category

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

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

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.

Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.

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

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

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

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.

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

Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

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.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

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

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.

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

Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

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.

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

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

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

Season your admiration for a while.

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

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

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

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.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

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.

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

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

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

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

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

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.