Quotes on the topic: Admiration


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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.


No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.


A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.


There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.


I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.


Admiration and familiarity are strangers.


I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.


There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.


I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.


When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.


Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.


Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.


Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.


But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.


I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.


I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.


Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.


As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.


We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.


A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.