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Quotes About Admiration

openly desirous of my company, so alight with manifest appreciation of every angle of my being.
~ Scott Turow
Do you love him? Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. He makes me feel like that. Like flying.
~ Scott Westerfeld
You look beautiful - David
~ Scott Westerfeld
Un ángel! ¡Bah! Todos dicen lo mismo de la que aman, ¿no es verdad? Y, sin embargo, yo no podré decirte cuán perfecta es y por qué es perfecta; en resumen, ha esclavizado todo mi ser.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To his spirit and character you cannot refuse your admiration and love; to his fate you will not deny your tears.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Qué niños somos! ¡Con qué vehemencia suspiramos por una mirada!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I watched Charlotte's eyes. They wandered from one to the other; but they did not light on me, on me, who stood there motionless, and who saw nothing but her!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement. ? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theory of Colours . (The M.I.T. Press; 1st edition March 15, 1970) Originally published 1810.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Era immersa nel suo libro e in se stessa, tanto amabile da vedersi che gli alberi, i cespugli tutt'attorno avrebbero dovuto essere animati e dotati di occhi per ammirarla e goderne.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Een engel! - Jaja, dat zegt iedereen over de zijne, is het niet? Maar ik ben nu eenmaal niet in staat je te vertellen hoe volmaakt ze is, waarom ze volmaakt is; laat het je genoeg zijn dat ze op al mijn gedachten beslag heeft gelegd.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
~ John Adams
Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings. I shall envy neither their music nor their colors.
~ John Adams
It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.
~ John Addington Symonds
I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.
~ John Barth
The happiness of being envied is glamour.
~ John Berger
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.... In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
~ John Burroughs
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
~ John Burroughs
It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.
~ John Bytheway
Hero-worship is innate to human nature, and it is founded on some of our noblest feelings,—gratitude, love, and admiration.—but which, like all other feelings, when uncontrolled by principle and reason, may easily degenerate into the wildest exaggerations, and lead to most dangerous consequences.
~ John Calvin
When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.
~ John Calvin
We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.
~ John Calvin
For we not only discover God by admiring His incomprehensible essence, a thing which still lies hid in the hope of the promise, but we see Him through the greatness of His creation, and the consideration of His justice, and the aid of His daily providence:
~ John Cassian