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Quotes About Admiration

I respect Cristiano Ronaldo. He has had a superb career.
~ Jupp Heynckes
Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero.
~ Bindi Irwin
And where a great and unique person speaks, the rest of us should be silent
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are respectable only as they respect.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mankind love a lover.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strange thing, this hero worship of ours.
~ Ravi Zacharias
What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty, his eyes afire with admiration and cries, That new story of yours was fine, really wonderful!
~ Ray Bradbury
What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty, his eyes afire with admiration and cries, "That new story of yours was fine, really wonderful!" Then and only then is writing worthwhile. Quite
~ Ray Bradbury
They both stopped to enjoy the swift pound of each other's heart.
~ Ray Bradbury
Admiration was a sentiment unknown to her - first, as always more or less tainted with mediocrity, and next, as being in a way an admission of inferiority. And both were frankly inconceivable to her nature.
~ Joseph Conrad
Hadn't I been told in all the tones of jealousy and admiration that he had collected, bartered, swindled, or stolen more ivory than all the other agents together?
~ Joseph Conrad
Ich geselle mich zu ihnen und schaue ebenfalls voller Ehrfurcht und Bewunderung zu diesem gewaltigen Bauwerk auf und erschaudere angesichts einer Kultur, die eine solche Waffe, ein solch perverses Monument der Massenvernichtung bauen konnte.
~ Joseph Farrell
I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition. (Said to Leopold Mozart)
~ Joseph Haydn
I really do admire you a bit. You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it. - Colonel Korn
~ Joseph Heller
Appleby was as good at shooting crap as he was at playing Ping-Pong, and he was as good at playing Ping-Pong as he was at everything else. Everything Appleby did, he did well. Appleby was a fair-haired boy from Iowa who believed in God, Motherhood, and the American Way of Life, without ever thinking about any of them, and everybody who knew him liked him. I hate that son of a bitch, Yossarian growled.
~ Joseph Heller
The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
~ Joseph Heller