Quotes About Admiration

Major de Coverley is a noble and wonderful person, and everyone admires him.' 'He's a silly old fool who really has no right acting like a silly young fool. Where is he today? Dead?

The soldier who saw everything twice nodded weakly and sank back on his bed. Yossarian nodded weakly too, eyeing his talented roommate with great humility and admiration. He knew he was in the presence of a master. His talented roommate was obviously a person to be studied and emulated. During the night, his talented roommate died, and Yossarian decided that he had followed him far enough.

That's my girl," murmurs Jack. So, it's a mutual admiration society. I'm not jealous. I'd just like to know a little background on their relationship. It's not easy being odd man out, especially on your home turf… Seriously, I'm not jealous. Okay, maybe just a little.

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.

My governing principle as a critic is to call attention solely to books and writers that merit such attention, and to avoid whenever possible reviewing books "negatively" except in those instances in which the "negative" is countered by an admiring consideration of earlier books by the same author.

Come here, female. I mention lately how sexy your brain is.

Ella es muy bonita, ¿verdad? ¿Bonita? ¡Es la criatura más hermosa con que yo haya tropezado en mi vida! Eso decía mi corazón.

Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. "What is the most beautiful place you've ever seen?" Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. "Any place," he said huskily, "where you are.

Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face, he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.

I thought you were the loveliest, most enchanting creature God ever created.

In the middle of his rapid-fire dictatioin he said softly, without pausing, When the sun is on your hair, it shines like spun gold, and launched back into his letter. Lauren, who had inadvertently taken half of the compliment down in shorthand, gave him a killing glance, and he chuckled.

A slow, admiring smile drifted across his face as he said, "What a chameleon you are!" Her eyes snapped with indignation. "Lizard?

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Some town cynics dismissed it as a move designed to get him clemency in his sentencing. Still, Bob had his supporters, mostly the town businessmen, who seemed to honor each other. Because of their mutual admiration they felt they could do no wrong, and neither could their offspring. In this group, the feeling was strong that Bob Hansen was in jail because of Chief Wiseman's railroad. Things

When she spoke, entire planets hushed to hear her words. People she had never heard of, and never -would- hear of, committed suicide at the thought that they were unworthy to share the universe with her. Obscure alien races knelt at her image and spit up, with appropriate ritual obeisance, offerings of the very best regurgitated fish-liver wine.

Halsey was a guy who got things done and King definitely liked and respected that quality.

Las mejores cosas de la vida no pueden lograrse por la fuerza. Puedes obligar a comer, pero no puedes obligar a sentir hambre; puedes obligar a alguien a acostarse, pero no a dormir; puedes obligar a que te elogien, pero no a que te admiren; puedes obligar a que te cuenten un secreto, pero no a confiar; puedes obligar a que te sirvan, pero no a que te amen.27

Si quieres ser respetado por los demás, lo mejor es respetarte a ti mismo. Sólo por eso, sólo por el propio respeto que te tengas, inspirarás a los otros a respetarte. FIÓDOR DOSTOIEVSKI

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Respect was mingled with surprise,And the stern joy which warriors feelIn foemen worthy of their steel.