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Quotes About Admiration

I think, for instance, that no one can really love a person who is not superior in every way.
~ Shirley Jackson
To my dear, learned, & illustrious husband Menakhem-Mendl, may your light shine!
~ Sholom Aleichem
A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.
~ Shulamith Firestone
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious things in life.
~ Sigmund Freud
The thing that struck me the most about all these letters was his love for the trees.
~ Silas House
No American, so far as I am aware, ever professed a deep and unsullied affection for the USGS topographical sheets that it is possible to order from the government agencies. They are fine enough maps, and they cover the entirety of the nation. But seldom are they bought for the sheer pleasure of ownership, of the ability to pore over them and imagine, or remember, to draw contented admiration at their elegant appearance and scrupulous accuracy.
~ Simon Winchester
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
In amorous passion particularly, one does not want the beloved being to be admired objectively; one prefers to think her unknown, unrecognized; the lover thinks that his appropriation of her is greater if he is alone in revealing her worth. That is the genuine thing offered by all passion.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
She was credulous, perhaps; a born hero-worshipper; yet she did question and examine unceasingly.
~ Sinclair Lewis
It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depth by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I love and am loved by a better man than he.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile. Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere. I mean... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.
~ Sophie Kinsella
She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace... When you see the necklace in the painting, it all makes sense. He loved her. Even if she lived to one hundred and five without ever getting an answer.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Love is finding one person infinitely fascinating. And so... not an achievement, my dear. Rather, a privilege.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Love is finding one person infinitely fascinating.
~ Sophie Kinsella
She has amazing eyebrows. Some people are just granted amazing eyebrows, and she's one of them.
~ Sophie Kinsella
What is it about shoes? I mean, I like most kinds of clothes, but a good pair of shoes can just reduce me to jelly. Sometimes, when Suze isn't at home, I open my wardrobe and just stare at all my pairs of shoes, like some mad collector. And once I lined them all up on my bed and took a photograph of them. Which might seem a bit weird—but I thought, I've got loads of photos of people I don't really like, so why not take one of something I really love?
~ Sophie Kinsella
Love is finding one person infinitely fascinating." John seems lost in thought again—then comes to. "And so…not an achievement, my dear." He gives me a mild, kind smile. "Rather, a privilege.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Oh, you too, Becky!" says Nadine insincerely, then she looks at my spiky boots. "Don't those kill your feet? I can't do heels. I don't do rock music and I don't do heels over two inches. End of." She gives Craig a satisfied look and he gazes at her admiringly
~ Sophie Kinsella
Who could behold his greatness without envy?
~ Sophocles
He follows his heart's desire, but having found what he sought he wanders round to everyone's door with his song and speech, so that all can admire the hero as he does, be proud of the hero as he is.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
All the stars in the sky cannot worth as much as yours only because it belongs to you.
~ Sorin Cerin
My mom and dad have had a huge impact on my life, so I look up to them. As a actor, I would say Hugh Jackman.
~ Jacob Hopkins
By the way, to perform in front of Don Rickles, it 's not nerve-wrecking. It 's enjoyable, i am enjoying Jeff Garlin. I hope I perform in front of Don Rickles every night of my life !
~ Jeff Garlin