Quotes About Admiration For Someone

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

Sigmund Freud

#2. 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.

Clemence Poesy

#3. 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.

William Shakespeare

#4. 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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#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.

Eliza Haywood

#6. When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

John Dryden

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

Joseph Priestley

#8. There were people who were born with an inability to be tangled up in dark emotions, in complications, and Iloba was one of them. For such people, Obinze felt both admiration and boredom.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#9. 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.

Frances Hardinge

#10. 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.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man.

George Eliot

#12. Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand.

George Ade

#13. I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.

Karen Joy Fowler

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

Kim Kardashian

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

Nelson Rodrigues

#16. I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.

Shana Alexander

#17. I don't admire the person who does what they want to do. I admire the person who does what they're afraid to do.

Donna Lynn Hope

#18. I have to make decisions that people are a little confused about, in a way, and I just express the appreciation, admiration and respect I have. I just try to be the best I can, but I'm human.

Selena Gomez

#19. 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

#20. It was a machine that required constant feeding- Henry hated the machine, and he hated himself for wanting the sort of admiration it promised, as if he had no worth unless someone was there to applaud it

Libba Bray

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

Claire Tomalin

#22. Someone like David Tennant is able to embrace people's love for 'Doctor Who' in a totally positive way. I have huge admiration for people who are able to do that.

Romola Garai

#23. I have huge admiration for people who think like the effective altruist, who try to rationally think about how they can change the world for the better, and who try not to be swayed by irrational considerations, such as skin color or whether or not someone lives in the same neighborhood.

Paul Bloom

#24. If someone burns out your eye
I will take your socket
and use it for an ashtray.

Anne Sexton

#25. Politeness, it turned out, was almost as effective when you wanted someone to do something for you. And kindness went further toward lasting admiration than any amount of mind control. Word

Marissa Meyer

#26. Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Ayn Rand

#27. You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive.

Pascal Bruckner

#28. The highest admiration I have for my colleagues is not for someone in a studio in New York but for somebody on the ground in places that they've gone to fight to tell the story.

Charlie Rose

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

Iris Murdoch

#30. admiration was closed to love.

Sena Jeter Naslund

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

Horace

#32. One can seldom admire what one loves.

Marcel Proust

#33. 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.

Julie Burchill

#34. Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Bertrand Russell

#35. And in repose one might have admired so fine a specimen of English manhood, until the foppish ways, the affected movements, the perpetual inane laugh, brought one's admiration of Sir Percy Blakeney to an abrupt close.

Emmuska Orczy

#36. A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious ... When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought to command the admiration of every friend to human nature. But if sullied by crimes and extravagancies, it loses its respectability.

Alexander Hamilton

#37. There's a limit to enduring admiration being a substitute for love.

John Irving

#38. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

Hermann Hesse

#39. Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#40. I watched as she, with a half-life-worth of anger and resolve, flickered into this dark night and tried with all her might to get back what was taken from her.

Mo Daviau

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

William Lyon Phelps

#43. Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.

Josh Billings

#44. We should not center our lives on receiving praise and admiration. If we are secure in our faith, our identity will be based on the love of God, not the opinion of others.

Patti J. Smith

#45. Tottenham Hotspur has a huge following across the world and I have great admiration for the passion the fans show for this team. We are determined to give the supporters the kind of attacking football and success that we are all looking to achieve.

Mauricio Pochettino

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

Leonardo Da Vinci

#47. There are things a person does without any reason, without any second thought, maybe they do not hold grudges for long, maybe they just forgive, and there is something strange about that type of person. I admire them.

Shaikh Ashraf

#48. The rancor I once bore recedes, supplanted by admiration and a sense even of loss at the mates we might have been and the times we might have shared.

Steven Pressfield

#49. My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top.

Kevin Spacey

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

Jane Austen

#51. 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.

Brian D'Arcy James

#52. 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.

Matt Sanchez

#53. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]

Winston S. Churchill

#54. 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?

Dorothy L. Sayers

#55. We always like those who admire us.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Karl Barth