Quotes about Admiration

Have you ever seen the way a cloud loves a mountain? from Song of Solomon

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to lovel

Some people might say that I think too highly of you just because I worship the water you walk on.

For the first four years of my life, while he lived, I was not Ti Jean Duluoz, I was Gerard, the world was his face, the flower of his face, the pale stooped disposition, the heartbreakingness and the holiness and his teachings of tenderness to me, and my mother constantly reminding me tonpay attention to his goodness and advice.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

I love beautiful; always have. I never saw why I should hate what I wish I had. Love it harder. Work your way closer. Clasp your hands around it tighter. Till you find a way to make it yours.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.

But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.

Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign—the starry eye.

Biassou raised his hand, and as if by enchantment the tumult was stilled, and each negro returned to his place in the ranks in silence. The discipline which Biassou had imposed upon his equals by the exercise of his power of will struck me, I may say, with admiration. All the soldiers of the force seemed to exist only to obey the wishes of their chief, as the notes of the harpsichord under the fingers of the musician.