Admiration Quotes

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.