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Quotes About Admiration

It is attention, really, that is the big resource; it is being acknowledged. It is being told you did a great job.
~ Walter Wagner
My sons weren't sure what I was getting at. It doesn't matter anyway, because it won't be an option for them. They don't have a Tom Petty. They're borrowing mine.
~ Warren Zanes
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
~ Washington Irving
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways
~ Washington Irving
Chi conquista un migliaio dei soliti cuori ha diritto a qualche fama, ma chi sa rimaner assoluto padrone del cuore di una civetta è veramente un eroe.
~ Washington Irving
Creative affinity means you become increasingly more like that which you love the most.
~ Wayne Cordeiro
I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.
~ Wayne Rooney
T.R. "Tina" Threston is one of the most beautiful women I've ever had the pleasure of meeting and calling friend. There are many beautiful women in the world, but, most of the beauty is skin deep. Tina is the exception to this rule -- her beauty radiates from within from her intellect to her compassion for others, and, she is a true physical beauty -- very pleasing to the eye. She is a rare gem in today's society. Any man lucky enough to capture her heart should hold on tight and not let go.
~ Wellington Harris
Then I saw Juli. She was two tables away from me, facing my direction. Only she wasn't looking at me. She was looking at Jon, her eyes all sparkly and laughing. My heart lurched. What was she laughing about? What were they talking about? How could she sit there and look so... beautiful? I felt myself spinning out of control. It was weird. Like I couldn't even steer my own body. I'd always thought Jon was pretty cool, but right then I wanted to go over and throw him across the room.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
He saw Hercules in the movie theater time after time, hour after hour, examining Park, judging him, admiring him, and, ultimately, promising himself that one day he, Arnold Schwarzenegger, then thirteen years old and poor as he was, would be like him, would even surpass Reg Park.
~ Wendy Leigh
Within the walls of Love Hall, Lord Loveall could command this kind of respect.
~ Wesley Stace
When I was a kid, I wanted to be as good an actor as Patrick, as cool as Frakes, and as funny as Brent. From time to time, one of them would say something to me that made me feel like I'd taken a step in that direction, and it always meant the world to me. I loved it when Brent would joke around with me, because it made me feel like I was the peer I so desperately wanted to be, instead of the clueless teenager I knew I was.
~ Wil Wheaton
They love Jesus because he is what they are not and cannot ever be. They try to drink his strength and simplicity and spontaneous beauty into themselves. But they do not succeed. They cannot
~ Wilhelm Reich
Tu es grand quand tu trouves ton plaisir dans le ciel bleu, dans le chevreuil, dans la rosée, dans la musique, dans la danse, quand tu admires tes enfants qui grandissent, la beauté du corps de ta femme ou de ton mari; quand tu te rends au planétarium pour étudier les astres, quand tu lis à la bibliothèque ce que d'autres hommes et femmes ont écrit sur la vie.
~ Wilhelm Reich
She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.
~ Wilkie Collins
Because we tend to remember the best of times and the worst of times instead of the most likely of times, the wealth of experience that young people admire does not always pay clear dividends.
~ Daniel M. Gilbert
I am a soldier of Allah, but a great admirer of Winston Churchill. And it was Churchill who said that in wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
~ Daniel Silva
It's nice to have one's work appreciated.
~ Daniel Silva
I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.
~ Danielle Dax
Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people.
~ Dashiell Hammelt
No one would ever find time to read such a collection, but libraries like that are not intended to be read, only envied.
~ Dave Duncan
My niece likes you," one of the Isitri said. Another added, "So does my brother." "And my wife." "And my domesticated animal.
~ Dave Galanter
Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
~ Dave Matthews