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Quotes About Admiration

Yozzy is a horse, for which I envy her.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.
~ Catherine Zeta-Jones
We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The man who knelt before her would have sprung from her needles, even down the ghostly flecks of silver in his hair. She had not known before that she wanted all these things, that she preferred dark hair and a slightly cruel expression, that she wishes for tallness, or that a man kneeling might thrill her.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I wanted to write about a postapocalyptic world where our civilization was not looked back on with awe and admiration, as it is in so many books of the genre, but disdained as the fuckwits we are, who wrecked a perfect biosphere because we couldn't be bothered not to.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I had to own that I admired her for listening to her own heart rather than having her life ruled by others' conventions.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Glory be to God for dappled things.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree. (from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
The state of admiration is a condition of feeblemindedness. Most people are feebleminded all their lives only because they admire. Only a dimwit admires, the smart one doesn't admire: he respects, observes, understands.
~ Gerhard Kopf
Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.
~ Gerry Cooney
She was about eighteen, wearing a two-piece red bathing suit. She had blonde hair and she was really built, so when she ran you wanted to watch.
~ Gil Brewer
The hero worship had just become obvious. He felt that he ought to be resenting it. All the same, the whiff of incense was not unsweet in his nostrils. Rather the reverse.
~ Gilbert Frankau
Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana. '
~ Gina Carano
quando passaron dentro col favore degli occhi di colei
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Admiradores A admiração, mesmo a mais calorosa, tem sempre um subentendido de condescendência, isto é, a certeza de uma superioridade.
~ Giovanni Papini
Admiradores Quem admira tem a impressão de dar e a certeza de que o outro necessita do seu dom. Mas na tabela secreta dos valores humanos, o dador acha-se acima do necessitado. Nessa conformidade, o admirador sente-se, sem o confessar, superior ao admirado.
~ Giovanni Papini
O mundo, que está cheio de orgulhosos, também está cheio de admiradores. O mistério dissipa-se, quando se descobre que a admiração é a maneira mais nobre e pudica de afirmar a superioridade daquele que admira.
~ Giovanni Papini
It was a motorcycle. Black, angular, and sleek, unmistakably European, it was the most beautiful object Carter had ever seen. He wanted it. He would fight anyone who tried to take it away from him. How soon could he ride it?
~ Glen David Gold
Great work doesn't make me jealous; it makes me want to work.
~ Glen Hirshberg
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
~ Gloria Steinem
she seemed both proud and scared that I was where she had once wished to be.
~ Gloria Steinem
We can see for ourselves how beautiful we both are.
~ Gordon Merrick
I admire and respect those unique and positive individuals who can "age without aging." The number of times a heart beats is not as important as its tempo and rhythm.
~ Craig D. Slovak