Admiration Quotes - Page 7

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.

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

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.

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

I encourage all Americans to express admiration and appreciation to fathers.

Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.

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

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

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

Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.

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.

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

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.

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

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.