Quotes About Admiration

Things are beautiful if you love them.

En général, vous savez, les gens, les femmes, me plaisent pour des raisons extérieurs, des raisons qui n'ont rien à voir avec elles, posées sur elles comme une robe de chambre ou un manteau qu'on peut poser sur une autre. Une femme me plait par exemple, parce-qu'elle a joué dans un film de Bresson ou bien parce-qu'un homme que j'admire est amoureux d'elle.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

I worship him. When I see him lying naked, I feel like saying mass on his chest.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

respected your mother, and she honors that.

J'aime en lui sa beauté, sa grâce tant vantée, Présents dont la nature a voulu l'honorer, Qu'il méprise lui-même, et qu'il semble ignorer.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

As you know, men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

but you won't mind, will you, if I tell you that I have a very much more special feeling for another man? You can probably guess without much trouble who he is. I suspect that my letters have been very full of Master Jervie for a very long time. I

Talent, réussite, succès font de vous un ennemi de l'espèce humaine qui, à mesure qu'elle vous admire plus, se reconnaît moins en vous et préfère vous tenir à distance. Seuls les escrocs, par l'origine triviale de leur fortune, l'acquièrent sans se couper de leurs semblables et même en s'attirant leur sympathie.

I need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. A letter from a friend, a Balthus painting on a postcard, a page of Saint-Simon, give meaning to the passing hours. But to keep my mind sharp, to avoid descending into resigned indifference, I maintain a level of resentment and anger, neither too much nor to little, just a s a pressure cooker has a a safety valve to keep it from exploding.

I need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. A letter from a friend, a Balthus painting on a postcard, a page of Saint-Simon, give meaning to the passing hours.

Juan gave Bones the most admiring look he'd bestowed on him yet. You talked her into going without panties all these years? Madre de Dios, now that's impressive. I could learn a great deal from you, amigo.

Es mi cielo, mi luna, y todas mis estrellas. My sky, my moon, and all my stars.

you truly are la reina de mi alma." The queen of my soul.

Yours looks beautiful, too.

Grace is what matters, in anything... That's a quality I admire quite greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly, keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It keeps you alive and it keeps you open for more understanding.

Everyone loves a success story," says Newton. "And once you succeed, everyone loves tearing you down.

I'm a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley.

Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.

In 1936, when men such as Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh openly admired Hitler, it was still safe to name the style of government to which these words pointed. Human problems, Buchman told his little group that night in Lenox, require "a God-controlled democracy, or perhaps I should say a theocracy." Just as good, said Buchman, would be a "God-controlled Fascist dictatorship.

I was becoming a huge Blister fan.

You can't quit because there's a Beyoncé in the world. You can't quit because you went to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and realized that everyone on stage knows more about music than you ever will.