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Quotes About Admiration

I love James Taylor and Carole King, Joni Mitchell - this is, like, early '70s stuff. I love the stuff from the '40s. I love that tight harmony that the studio singers in the '50s would sing. I love Patsy Cline. Yeah, I'm all over the place.
~ Jane Lynch
No matter how bad things looked, Gramps had always seemed a giant to me. He wasn't made up of any monstrous parts.
~ Sally Gardner
Like all children, you would have loved and admired her. You would have named your favorite doll after her....And then you would have poked out the doll's eyes.
~ Sally Hobart Alexander
I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.
~ Salma Hayek
Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.
~ Sam Ewig
I had a great time with John Duigan he's pretty amazing.
~ Sam Rockwell
I thought, out of respect to her, she should have been captain. We all saw her as our leader.
~ Sam Walker
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him," he wrote. "Fail to honor others and they will fail to honor you.
~ Sam Walker
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
~ Samuel Daniel
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
~ Samuel Johnson
There are charms made only for distance admiration.
~ Samuel Johnson
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
~ Samuel Johnson
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
~ Samuel Johnson
and in general it was a great pleasure all the time I staid here to see how I am respected and honoured by all people; and I find that I begin to know now how to receive so much reverence, which at the beginning I could not tell how to do.
~ Samuel Pepys
Familiarity destroys reverence.
~ Samuel Richardson
Your daughter should not be allowed to assemble the mask…but that doesn't mean I don't admire her.
~ Sana Takeda
I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.
~ Sandra Bernhard
sinä kaunis, sinä riemastuttava tyttö
~ Sapfo
sinä olet) kaunein kaikista tähdistä
~ Sapfo
You are, I think, an evening star, of all the stars, the fairest…
~ Sappho
And a sweet expression spreads over her fair face.
~ Sappho
for you beautiful ones my thought is not changeable
~ Sappho
Some say thronging cavalry, some say foot soldiers, others call a fleet the most beautiful of sights the dark earth offers, but I say it's what- ever you love best. . . . . But that reminds me: now my Anactória is gone, and I'd rather see her lovely step, her sparkling glance and her face than gaze on all the troops in Lydia in their chariots and glittering armor.
~ Sappho
Reminded me of Anaktoria, who is gone. I would rather see her lovely step and the motion of light on her face than chariots of Lydians or ranks of footsoldiers in arms.
~ Sappho