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Quotes About Admiration

As for Toussaint, she venerated Jean Valjean and liked everything he did. One
~ Victor Hugo
you are looking at a plain man and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
~ Victor Hugo
Ser-se canhoto é circunstância digna de inveja
~ Victor Hugo
Then she looked at Marius, put on a strange expression and said to him, "Do you know, Monsieur Marius, you're a very pretty boy?
~ Victor Hugo
Ah! my poor Bahorel, she is a superb girl, very literary, with tiny feet, little hands, she dresses well, and is white and dimpled, with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her.
~ Victor Hugo
Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of.
~ Victor Hugo
Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign—the starry eye.
~ Victor Hugo
Biassou raised his hand, and as if by enchantment the tumult was stilled, and each negro returned to his place in the ranks in silence. The discipline which Biassou had imposed upon his equals by the exercise of his power of will struck me, I may say, with admiration. All the soldiers of the force seemed to exist only to obey the wishes of their chief, as the notes of the harpsichord under the fingers of the musician.
~ Victor Hugo
A creature so beautiful that God would have preferred her to the Virgin and have chosen her for his mother and have wished to be born of her if she had been in existence when he was made man!
~ Victor Hugo
Il y a des gens qui respectent les règles de l'honneur comme on observe les étoiles, de très loin.
~ Victor Hugo
Todo lo que es grande inspira un horror sagrado. Es fácil admirar las medianías y las colinas; pero lo que es grandísimo, genio o monte, asamblea u obra maestra, visto de cerca espanta.
~ Victor Hugo
I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.
~ Kristin Hannah
Once, she had taken love for granted. Never again. Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark.
~ Kristin Hannah
He loves a version of me that is incomplete. I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.
~ Kristin Hannah
You know what I love most about you, Leni Allbright?" "What?" "Everything.
~ Kristin Hannah
I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think I'd like to be known.
~ Kristin Hannah
always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.
~ Kristin Hannah
As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved.
~ L. Frank Baum
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.
~ L. Frank Baum
She was… damn it, she was everything. Witty, enchanting, brave, smart… and beautiful. And he knew that his eyes were saying all that and that she wasn't turning away.
~ l.j smith
I'm in love with you. I think everything you do is marvelous.
~ L.J. Smith
Elena smiled and he had to smile back, at first just a quirk of the lip, and then a full smile. She was…Damn it, she was everything. Witty, enchanting, brave, smart…and beautiful. And he knew that his eyes were saying all that and that she wasn't turning away.
~ L.J. Smith
The love she felt for Rob now was a burning tenderness, a knowledge that he was the one who'd taught he it was POSSIBLE to love, who had melted the ice of her heart. it was strong and gentile and steady, full of admiration and the intimacy of shared likes and dislikes. it was golden and warm like a summer afternoon.
~ L.J. Smith