Quotes About Admiration

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Although Ryan hardly knew the person whose breath was playing over his cheek any better than he had mere seconds before, the simple exchange of names—or initials—had raised the bar for the encounter from anonymously seedy to merely impulsive. He'd always admired impulsiveness, though he'd never successfully cultivated the tendency in himself. Impulsive people seemed to get what they wanted. And if not, they looked like they had a lot of fun trying.

The paradox of education: what we most admire we put in a box and make dull.

Friends, we have a hero living among us.

Tu está tão bonita, tu nem sabe… Tu parece uma cebola, carnuda e sumarenta, boa de morder… Quem tem razão é o salafra do Vivaldo… Bota cada olho em teu pandeiro, aquele fístula…

Goya's savage verve, his harsh, brutal genius, captivated Des Esseintes. On the other hand, the universal admiration his works had won rather put him off, and for years he had refrained from framing them, for fear that if he hung them up, the first idiot who saw them would might feel obliged to dishonour them with a few inanities and go into stereotyped ecstasies over them.

Lo que te faltó para enamorarte verdaderamente de una mujer fue lo mismo que te faltó para enamorarte de una actividad, o de algún vicio, por último. Te faltó abandono, fe, ese entusiasmo generoso, esa facultad de admiración emocionada que concede a la otra persona la importancia de ser única, necesaria

Vivir es aprender, para ignorar menos; es amar, para vincularnos a una parte mayor con la humanidad; es admirar, para compartir las excelencias de la naturaleza y de los hombres; es un esfuerzo por mejorarse, un incesante afán de elevación hacia ideales definidos.

Reverenciará a su más cruel adversario, si éste se encumbra; desdeñará a su mejor amigo si nadie lo elogia. Su criterio carece de iniciativas. Sus admiraciones son prudentes.

Un libro de cabecera no se escoge, se enamora uno de él.

Mucho, señora, daría Por tender sobre tu espalda Tu cabellera bravía, Tu cabellera de gualda: Despacio la tendería, Callado la besaría. Por sobre la oreja fina Baja lujoso el cabello, Lo mismo que una cortina Que se levanta hacia el cuello. La oreja es obra divina De porcelana de China. Mucho, señora, te diera Por desenredar el nudo De tu roja cabellera Sobre tu cuello desnudo: Muy despacio la esparciera, Hilo por hilo la abriera

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Rais'd of themselves, their genuine charms they boast And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object; unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.

Then she is beautiful beyond the Race of Women; if you won't let her go on with a certain Artifice with her eyes, and the Skill of Beauty, she will arm her self with her real Charms, and strike you with Admiration instead of Desire.

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

How could she criticize her mother when, in truth, she wanted to be just like her, brave

Jagged Peak especially admired his brother Clear Sky