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Quotes About Admiration

You'd have made a helluva dancer, Big Guy,
~ John Gilstrap
That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.
~ John Gray
That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
~ John Green
We now had three girls and one testosterone-pumped guy bird that spent every walking minute doing of of three things: pursuing sex, having sex or crowing boastfully about the sex he had just scored. Jenny observed that roosters are what men would be if left to their own devices, with no social conventions to rein in their baser instincts, and I couldn't disagree. I had to admit, I kind of admired the lucky bastard.
~ John Grogan
Jay modi was a god.
~ John Humphrey
Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
~ John Keats
I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweet tooth in his head.
~ John Lyly
Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
~ John McEnroe
My two rock idols are Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Not just because they are from Jersey, but, because they conduct themselves with humility and give a lot back to the public and their respective communities. And, the fact they both ended up marrying someone that "knew them when" is something I admire and hope to have with Tina (Rinaldi) one day.
~ John McNerney
And here," she said. "Let me fix your tie." She tugged on his bow tie, her eyes appraising him, and he basked in it. He had left his tie crooked on purpose, just so she could straighten it.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Anne Tyler is a goddess. I've been reading her since I was at uni and she has only gotten better.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Is there anyone in the world more fascinating than the woman you lost out to?
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Maybe some people, like art, were better appreciated at a distance.
~ Elisa Ludwig
Surely, Miss Ashburn,' and he looked at me stedfastly, 'you cannot think I would ever use your mother ill.' 'Do you love her, sir?' 'I have told you, Miss Ashburn, I admire her—I think her a fine spirited woman.' 'Do you love her, sir?' rejoined I with more emphasis. 'Love! why yes—no!—I have a great friendship for her, madam.—But as to love 'tis out of fashion—it is exploded.
~ Eliza Fenwick
as, Are you engag'd, Madam? – Will you permit me to wait on you home after the Play? – By Heaven, you are a fine Girl!
~ Eliza Haywood
Since when was genius found respectable?
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Therefore to this dog will I,Tenderly not scornfully,Render praise and favor.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I think of thee!-my thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines, about a tree... Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood I will not have my thoughts instead of thee Who art dearer, better!
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Our Balzac should be flattered beyond measure by my thinking of him at all. Which I did, but of you more.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Chancing to express his admiration of them to Mr. Kenyon, who had been his friend since 1839 and his father's school-fellow in years long distant, Mr. Browning was urged by him to write to Miss Barrett himself, and tell her of his pleasure in her work.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert is a warm admirer of Balzac and has read most of his books, but certainly — oh certainly — he does not in a general way appreciate our French people quite with our warmth; he takes too high a standard, I tell him, and won't listen to a story for a story's sake.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Perceval could not be crying, because Perceval did not cry. But something shining froze on her face as she strode at the center of the group, her parasite wings flared about her like a nest of barbs. She looked severe and resolute-no one could look pale, standing next to Tristen-and Rien admired her desperately.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Perhaps what I was feeling was the thing called awe.
~ Elizabeth Bear