Quotes About Admiration

And he could glance at her continually as she bent over the fruit, while the level evening sunbeams stole through the thick apple-tree boughs and rested on her round cheek and neck as if they too were in love with her.

A poet looks at the world somewhat as a man looks at a woman.

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

Quando fosse homem, caminharia assim, pesado, cambaio, importante, as rosetas das esporas tilintando. Saltaria no lombo de um cavalo brabo e voaria na catinga como pé de vento, levantando poeira. Ao regressar, apear-se-ia num pulo e andaria no pátio assim torto, de perneiras, gibão, guarda-peito e chapéu de couro com barbicacho. O menino mais velho e Baleia ficariam admirados.

You seem to like helping, taking care of people," he said. "That is admirable." "You enjoy being nurtured?" "Well, that isn't all you promise. When you touch me, I feel a fire at my center. You want me to grow and find my true story, my purpose. You seem to want to be there when I see new things. You want to share and enjoy my discoveries.

If you have to ask for respect, you're not gonna get it.

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

Tu ne vas pas me faire croire que tu sais allumer un feu de cheminée? s'amusa Billie. — Bien sûr que si ! répondis-je vexé. — Très bien, vas-y, homme, je te regarde avec mes yeux admiratifs de femme soumise.

anxiety to become good enough for Johan Cruyff to notice us cannot be put into words. Without that desire, none of us would be who we are today.

No es que lo aborreciera por ser él, sino por el que yo era en comparación con él. Esa es la más intransitable de las envidias, la que se coagula en el estrecho pasaje hacia la confianza en uno mismo.

We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)

Muhammad is the greatest man that history ever knew

To-day the majority of the great men who have swayed men's minds no longer have altars, but they have statues, or their portraits are in the hands of their admirers, and the cult of which they are the object is not notably different from that accorded to their predecessors.

Inmóvil, absorto en una contemplación muda, yo permanecía aún con los ojos fijos en la figura de aquella mujer, cuya especial belleza había herido mi imaginación de un modo tan extraordinario.

Life is bloody short, and you might as well concentrate on enjoying yourself because nobody is going to admire you for your sacrifices and self-restraint.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.

You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?" -- Sandre to Catriana

I'd understood that when you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in somebody else, you don't look for all the reasons that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

La admiración es una forma noble de la envidia.

Ah, la necesidad de copiar, de ser lo que admiraba, de apropiármelo.

This is why I go so willingly into the house of dreams: I admire them for their aptitude for non-discrimination. It is in their house that the equal light from before the guilty feeling reigns. Neither pride, nor shame.