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Quotes About Admiration

The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.
~ Don Rickles
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
~ Francis Chan
Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.
~ Gene Tierney
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.
~ Ray Stannard Baker
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
~ Annie Dillard
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
~ Berthold Auerbach
I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!
~ Brian Tee
I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.
~ Dave Brubeck
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
~ Delmore Schwartz
This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.
~ Douglas Adams
The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.
~ Epicurus
You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
~ Francesca Annis
I love a man who loves his mama, which is one of the many reasons I'm crazy about Justin Timberlake.
~ Gayle King
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
~ George Bernard Shaw
What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.
~ H. L. Mencken
A man who does not love praise is not a full man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
~ Herman Melville
Their silence is sufficient praise.
~ Terence
To say someone is a vision is to pay them a great compliment. If you say that they look a sight it is a grave insult.
~ Teresa Monachino
I love my father as the stars — he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.
~ Terri Guillemets