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Quotes About Admiration

She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
For Nicole, my idea of beauty
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
She was incredibly beautiful, with a face like Mom's, which seemed like it was smiling even when she wasn't smiling, and huge boobs.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
~ Jonathan Swift
It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed, no man likes owing anything to his contemporaries. The repeated but irrelevant points of congruence between Joyce's Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey continue to attract (though I shall never understand why) the dazzled admiration of critics.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Application, resignation, and chance had gone into the writing; I saw, however, that Daneri's real work lay not in the poetry but in his invention of reasons why the poetry should be admired. Of course, this second phase of his effort modified the writing in his eyes, though not in the eyes of others.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Comprendí que el trabajo del poeta no estaba en la poesía; estaba en la invención de razones para que la poesía fuera admirable;
~ Jorge Luís Borges
You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.
~ A. A. Milne
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
~ A. P. Herbert
You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.
~ A.A. Miline
You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.
~ A.A. Milne
Don't you think that when we envy other people their qualities, their lives, their possessions--we don't mean 'I wish I were you,' but 'I wish I had some of the things you've got in addition to all I've got'?
~ A.A. Milne
He did not answer, nor did he watch as I left. He was seeing Sigismund again, dwelling on replies he could never speak to a brother he had once admired and who had died despising him.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Elkins sat and watched her go down the hall. He had always loved red hair. His first love, a girl in his third grade class, had red hair. And he had always liked white shorts on a shapely woman.
~ Aaron Stander
Another problem posed by excessive reliance on acceptance, admiration, or love is that we do not possess a reliable gauge that another person is, indeed, rejecting, reproaching, or critical of us.
~ AARON T. BECK
You tell me of degrees of perfection to which human nature is capable of arriving, and I believe it, but at the same time lament that our admiration should arise from the scarcity of the instances.
~ Abigail Adams
Terrible (whom he greatly admired), was molded largely by traumatic childhood
~ Abraham Ascher
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Envy Is Behind Flattery.
~ Abraham Verghese
I have never forgotten how you looked on that Sunday, Bertha: your lips of red as you sat talking with me on the sun-drenched stones, your eyes shining in the forest.
~ Adalbert Stifter
I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
~ Adam Lambert
I love attention. I can't stand not having it. It just has to be the right kind.
~ Adam Levine
Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.
~ Adam Levine
Waleryjo! Ty przecie? spomi?dzy ziemianek Zazdro?ci godna! Ciebie ubóstwia? kochanek, O którym inna pró?no ca?e ?ycie marzy, Którego rysów szuka w ka?dej nowej twarzy, I w ka?dym nowym g?osie nadaremnie bada Tonu, który jej duszy brzmieniem odpowiada.
~ Adam Mickiewicz