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Quotes About Admiration

I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.
~ Poppy Montgomery
It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
~ Orson Scott Card
What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
~ Ouida
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.
~ Randy Castillo
More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet."
~ Harry Belafonte
Barack Obama is a man of great dignity.
~ Hillary Clinton
All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.
~ Homer
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.
~ Honore de Balzac
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
~ Horace
I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
~ Idris Elba
We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.
~ Indira Gandhi
I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.
~ J.K. Simmons
I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that.
~ Jake Epstein
Mike Adams, you are simply the sexiest man alive. You have my vote in .
~ Jessica Alba
Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.
~ John Agar
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
~ John Milton
I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.
~ John Stuart Mill
If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.
~ Patsy Cline
Everyone thinks their mom is a superhero, and l feel like I want to be just like my mom. A superhero. She's a very strong lady.
~ Rita Ora
My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.
~ Eliza Dushku