Quotes About Admiration

I admire President Obama's ability to trust strangers.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!

There is not a man alive who would not want you.

Ashiana… has no one ever told you?" He reached out to tilt her chin up, his touch as gentle as his voice. "I am not teasing when I call you sundar. Your eyes are the color of ocean waves in the morning sun. Your skin is like the silk the Hindus call 'the white of the clouds when the rain is spent.' And the rest of you…" His voice deepened. "… is delicate and feminine and perfect.

I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It's actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.

I read Borges, Jorge Luis Borges. He think he too good for me, but I love him . . . he was a blind man who see better than anyone

I have been in love with no one, and never shall", she whispered, "unless it should be with you.

With a woman he's crazy about, he'll put in all the overtime in the world. He'll be doing things for you, he'll be considerate, he'll want to please you, he'll try to cheer you up if you are down, and he will enjoy every moment because you are the person he values most.

I love everything about her, including her talent for breaking my heart.

Millie was never possessive, never effusive, and never demonstrative. Her even-tempered approach to her marriage should have been enough to convince everyone that she admired, but did not love, her husband. Yet for years now, his sisters had suspected something else. Perhaps unrequited love was like a specter in the house, a presence that brushed at the edge of senses, a heat in the dark, a shadow under the sun.

I don't put up with your thorns. I like them.

beautiful one. Emily was

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

Fuck, I wanted her. Even knowing what she thought of me, I wanted her. In all my life, I'd never wanted anything, not really. Except maybe not to be what I was—what I'll always be. But I wanted her with every fiber of my being but it was more than a physical need, although that was a gut-wrenching thing, one that might end me. I wanted everything about her, from the way she laughed, to the way she spoke to her dog to the solemn way she surveyed everything.

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.

Shirley Temple Black

Of the three of us, I alone was allowed to enter Amma's bedroom and watch her get dressed for special occasions. It was an experience I considered almost religious, for, even though I adored the goddesses of the local cinema, Amma was the final statement in female beauty for me.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

The eyes of women followed his progress with silent homage, the more candid among them bestowing that passing stupefaction which can be neither feigned nor hidden.

But this was just filling in the time pleasantly. He wants someone to worship, not to know.

Your grief is something to be admired – the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.

I don't deserve you. You know that, querida, don't you? (Alex)

I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.