Quotes About Admiration

And the secret is, I lowered my voice, as at a poetry reading, he was right! It is vanity, it is pride! It is the hubris of rationalism to always attack the prophet, the mystic, the god. It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us.

You are the only ones who can appreciate my triumph.

He became known for breaking in wild horses for local farmers, a sight that drew admiring spectators to the village square. He tamed even the most refractory horses through a fine sensitivity to their nature rather than by his physical prowess. "If people knew how much more they could get out of a horse by gentleness than by harshness," Grant once observed, "they would save a great deal of trouble both to the horse and the man.

Frederick Douglass paired Grant with Lincoln as the two people who had done most to secure African American advances: "May we not justly say . . . that the liberty which Mr. Lincoln declared with his pen General Grant made effectual with his sword—by his skill in leading the Union armies to final victory?"21 For the admiring Douglass, Grant was "the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race.

I was often there with George, his playmate, schoolmate, and young man's companion," said Lawrence Washington of Chotank, a distant relative. "Of the mother I was more afraid than of my own parents; she awed me in the midst of her kindness, for she was, indeed, truly kind.

John "was still her hero after all the years.

Better than Tennyson,' Reacher said. 'You have to give me that.

Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me.

One of the things Rune admired about Lucy was her impractical curiosity. She was writing notes in the margins.

Woody Allen has said, If I wanted to have a weekend of pure pleasure, it would be to have a half-dozen Bob Hope films and watch them, films like Monsieur Beaucaire and My Favorite Brunette. It's not for nothing that he's such a greatly accepted comedian. He is a great, great talent. Despite this praise from a celebrated contemporary funnyman, there is a tendency to take Bob Hope's films for granted.

The German university students were among the earliest groups to back Hitler. The intellectuals were among his regime's most ardent supporters. Professors with distinguished academic credentials, eager to pronounce their benediction on the Führer's cause, put their scholarship to work full time; they turned out a library of admiring volumes, adorned with obscure allusions and learned references.

Her hair was the blackest I ever saw. Her eyes matched her hair. Her nose was not quite large enough, I admit. Her mouth and chin were (to quote Mr. Franklin) morsels for the gods; and her complexion (on the same undeniable authority) was as warm as the sun itself, with this great advantage over the sun, that it was always in nice order to look at.

Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!

It was a machine that required constant feeding- Henry hated the machine, and he hated himself for wanting the sort of admiration it promised, as if he had no worth unless someone was there to applaud it

No se puede culpar a un chico por besar a la muchacha más hermosa de Nueva York.

excitement of it. He'd been the golden boy

know so much more. Mark was certain that learning everything about her would only reinforce what he was already sure of, that she was the most amazing woman he'd ever

Steven raised himself on an elbow, plucked a daisy, and put it through Emma's loose braid. He continued until a trail of white flowers paraded from her scalp to the place beneath her breast where her hair made a coppery fan. His

She looked up at him and loved what she saw.

He traced her arched eyebrow. "Every morning when I wake up with you at my side, you're more beautiful than yesterday.

father might have been my favorite playmate, but she was my hero

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.