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Quotes About Admiration

They think they love, but they merely desire. They think they follow Jesus, but in fact, they merely admire him.
~ Rod Dreher
Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
~ Rod McKuen
I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.
~ Rod Stewart
I can't get no respect.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
he gave it explicit thought, and some of his provocations and offensive behavior were intended to free his circle, as needed, from enslaving admiration. And yet that particular trap cannot help but make itself known in the relation between serious student and accomplished teacher, and it is a measure of the student's resourcefulness, once the trap is recognized, to free oneself without losing an ounce of regard for the teacher.
~ Roger Lipsey
He considered both doctors and nurses as monsters of insensitivity, in spite of the fact that he admired their devotion to duty.
~ Roland Topor
My left foot is the best part of me. It's Suzanne.
~ Roland Topor
They showed considerable anxiety because they were in the process of loving beauty.
~ Rollo May
You are the only man I ever respected,' she said. 'But you haven't aged well. You have stayed young. Men who stay young don't age well.
~ Romain Gary
He was entirely free of what De Gaulle called, in the kitchen Latin of Molière, paralysus respectus, the kind of awed rigidity that seemed to get hold of every Frenchman in the general's presence.
~ Romain Gary
What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.
~ Roman Payne
What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate it through painting or sculpture, or through fatherhood, until a second such face could be born.
~ Roman Payne
The Americans are certainly great hero worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
~ Ron Hansen
You never get to the face because the body's so good." (Referring to Steffi Graf)49
~ Ronald J. Sider
Yeah, she's really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren't happily married and, ya know, her father . . ." (Referring again to his daughter, Ivanka.)
~ Ronald J. Sider
You always admire what you really don't understand.
~ Roosevelt, Eleanor
Those eyes that hold the hand of every heart, Those hands that hold the heart of every eye, That eye, that hand, that wit, that heavenly sense, All these do show my mistresses' excellence.
~ Rosalind Miles
On a clear night, look up and count the stars and hold onto that number and know that I love you more. I will always love you.
~ Rosalind Noonan
Some Rules to Assist in My Transformation Make requests in the form of orders. Give compliments in the form of concessions. Ask questions in the form of statements. Exercises to enhance the muscles of the neck? Admire women's handiwork with copious amazement. Stride, swing arms, stop abruptly, stroke chin. Sharpen razor daily. Advance no explanations. Accept no explanations. Hum an occasional resolute march.
~ Louise Erdrich
He said, 'Hi, gorgeous,' which I think is nice. I admire honesty.
~ Louise Rennison
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Rolul ling?ului admirator e aproape singurul în care oamenii se îndur? unii pe alÅ£ii cu oarecare pl?cere.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Nous effectuions comme des progrès de poésie rien qu'à l'admirer d'être tellement belle et tellement plus inconsciente que nous. Le rythme de sa vie jaillissait d'autres sources que les nôtres
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
for it was a new thing to see Meg blushing and talking about admiration, lovers, and things of that sort, and Jo felt as if during that fortnight her sister had grown up amazingly, and was drifting away from her into a world where she could not follow.
~ Lousia May Alcott