Admiration Quotes - Page 10

• At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.

  John Ciardi

  Fighting, Forgiving, Next

  1959 'In Place of a Curse'.

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• It's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration.

  Birdman

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• Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.

  Paul Gauguin

  Light, Shining, World

  Paul Gauguin (1920). “Noa Noa”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Attitude, Special, Dying

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• It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

  Mary Cassatt

  Imitation, Danger, Masters

  Mary Cassatt, Nancy Mowll Mathews (1984). “Cassatt and her circle: selected letters”, Abbeville Pr

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• This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Flames, Lightning, Astonishment

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: The bee. Essays. An inquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductions”, p.131

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• I do feel the weight of being the steward of the greatest sport the world ever came up with. I grew up with a love and admiration for it, so I feel an obligation to portray it as electric and terrifying and exciting and beautiful, and all these sometimes contradicting things that make hockey what it is.

  Jay Baruchel

  Beautiful, Sports, Hockey

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Men, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.10

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• Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Voice, Waiting

  William Shakespeare (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.174, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Majesty, Scripture

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1767). “The Miscellaneous Works of Mr. J. J. Rousseau”, p.224

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• Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.

  Edmondo De Amicis

  Beautiful, Princess, Thinking

  "Constantinople". Book by Edmondo De Amicis, 1877.

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• If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.

  Denis Diderot

  Character, Criticism, Vices

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• The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such "revelations."

  Andre Malraux

  Men, Secret, Age

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part III, Chapter VI, 1953.

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• The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Miracle, Development

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• The older you've gotten, the more respect and admiration you've received.

  Jupp Heynckes

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It really helps to know what success is before you get there, and if you know, then you can head right for it. For some people, it's the most money. For some, it's the most power. For some, it's the most girlfriends. Everybody's got a measure. For me, I guess it's having the respect and admiration of your peers.

  Gordon Bethune

  Girlfriend, People, Peers

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• What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Success, Heart, Envy

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.506, Open Road Media

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• Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Revenge, Sacrifice, Men

  Herbert Spencer (1910). “Works: The study of sociology”

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• For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

  Natalie Merchant

  Friendship, Kindness, Debt

  Song: Kind and Generous, Album: Retrospective 1995-2005

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• It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.

  Aldo Leopold

  Philosophical, Mean, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.223, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized blossom of some cruelly bred plant; admiration for the world spread for the world to see on my gullible face-unlike my other face with the sour look of a starved peasant.

  Maureen Howard

  Sight, Looks, World

  Maureen Howard (1965). “Bridgeport Bus”, Penguin Group USA

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• I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

  Jimmy Connors

  Two, Ems, Way

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• Wow, I wish I could have done something like that.” That’s the thing, with other filmmakers, if I like them I just feel admiration. And yes, I usually say, “I wish I could have been part of that creative process,” because the films I admire like that are so specific that I know the creative process is also so specific, it’s nothing you could just imitate.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Creative, Wish, Done

  Source: ca.askmen.com

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• I'm full of admiration for the Queen. She's done a fantastic job. She has had an awful lot of blocks along the road and has overcome them all. I'm anything but an antimonarchist.

  Dick Clement

  Block, Done, Overcoming

  Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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• Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.296, Princeton University Press

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