Quotes and Sayings About Admiration
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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
