Quotes about Admiration

We live by admiration, hope and love.

The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

The face she lifted to her dancers was the same which, when she saw him, always looked like a window that has caught the sunset. He even noticed two or three gestures which, in his fatuity, he had thought she kept for him: a way of throwing her head back when she was amused, as if to taste her laugh before she let it out, and a trick of sinking her lids slowly when anything charmed or moved her.

Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred. She admired him most of all, perhaps, for being able to convey as distinct a sense of superiority as the richest man she had ever met.

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God.

It's very important, when you talk about a player like an Aaron Donald, 'Hey, here comes Ndamukong. How do you feel about a player like that?'

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

It's not annoying to get a compliment.

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.