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Quotes About Admiration

For me, my dad is the best hero in the universe.
~ Yoseob
So he enjoys a girl who stands up to him," Dad said once we all calmed down. "I like him more already.
~ Kiera Cass
My Dad is my hero.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
~ Sigmund Freud
Rascal Knockoff. I thought: Dostoyevsky fell in love with him.
~ Philip Roth
Depraved? Officer Balich, you are too old to idealize your parents.
~ Philip Roth
In truth, I did not have to wonder. She would be feeling that disturbing mixture of emotions that she always summoned from me: admiration and envy, pride and a furious rivalry, a longing to see a beloved sister succeed, and a passionate desire to see a rival fall.
~ Philippa Gregory
you are my joy. You are worth tens of thousands.
~ Philippa Gregory
No, you look like the beauty you are, and you know it. You have that gift, which our mother had, of growing older and becoming more lovely. Your features have changed from being merely those of a pretty girl to being those of a beautiful woman with a face like a carving. When you are laughing and dancing with Edward, you could pass for twenty, but when you are still and thoughtful, you are as lovely as the statues they are carving in Italy. No wonder women loathe you.
~ Philippa Gregory
You're my star, a stargazer too, and I wish that I were heaven, with a billion eyes to look at you.
~ Plato
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
~ Plato
Star of my life, to the stars your face is turned; Would I were the heavens, looking back at you with ten thousand eyes.
~ Plato
True love is admiration
~ Plato
For, observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.
~ Plato
they all emulated and admired and were students of Spartan education, could tell their wisdom was of this sort by the brief but memorable remarks they each uttered when they met, writing what is on every man's lips: Know thyself, and Nothing too much.
~ Plato
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~ Plato
Quién, de los oficiales de entonces, puede negar que te dé a las mujeres rusas la mejor y más valiosa recompensa?
~ Unknown
You're just full of awesome; did you know that?
~ Rachel Caine
I think I'd fall for you no matter what, Claire. You're kind of awesome.
~ Rachel Caine
My, if I didn't loathe her so much, I'd admire her.
~ Rachel Caine
And Myrnin seemed quite taken with that, Claire thought; she'd never seen him look at anyone with quite that much admiration. It surprised her that it made her feel a little … what was that? Jealous? Couldn't be.
~ Rachel Caine
Our love had been liking; our feelings had been ordinary, not Shakespearean. I still felt fondness for her—fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.
~ Rachel Cohn
Our love had been liking; our feelings had been ordinary, not Shakespearean. I still felt fondness for her—fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. I
~ Rachel Cohn