Admiration Quotes - Page 18

• There are many in public life who deserve only our praise and admiration. But there are too many who are products of a class that knows little other than spin and the machinations of politics. Little wonder that leadership of the transforming sort is so hard to come by. The danger is that this may be permanent. Where our best people shun politics because the profession isn't honoured as it once was, this only serves to make the profession even less honoured.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Leadership, Class, People

  4 Copy quote

• Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

  Niklaus Wirth

  People, Causes, Should

  23 Copy quote

• Some seek fame cause they need validation,
  Some say hating is confused admiration.

  Nas

  Hate, Confused, Rap

  523 Copy quote

• We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been through some difficult times together, and I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble, and now to work with Israel in a better time, a time that we trust will be a time of peace.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Past, Odds, Israel

  6 Copy quote

• It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by men, and most of the men only partially civilized. Some of its laws are good - some infinitely barbarous. None of the miracles related were performed. . . . Take out the absurdities, the miracles, all that pertains to the supernatural - all the cruel and barbaric laws - and to the remainder I have no objection. Neither would I have for it any great admiration.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Philosophy, Book, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Europe, Hatred, Brilliant

  "The Old Regime and the Revolution". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 245, 1856.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• They say I'm young, but my purpose is the inspiration of a nation, innovation 'till I change the talk into a conversation. I'm like a doctor and my patients are anxiously waiting; healing all the hatin' that fakin' in the paper chasing. It's hard to live up to these expectations that I'm facing, and gain the admiration of an older generation. That's why I'm pacing back and forth, contemplatin' mediatatin', how to use what I've been taught is a positive force.

  Tyler James Williams

  Inspiration, Healing, Doctors

  5 Copy quote

• The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.

  George C. Marshall

  War, Army, Fighting

  25 Copy quote

• If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where, if you inform strangers that you are a mathematician, they respond with admiration and not by telling you how much they hated math in school, and how they sure could use you to balance their checkbooks.

  Martin Gardner

  Country, Teaching, School

  11 Copy quote

• To me, he was the grand master of wine. He was a forceful Russian and a gentle person. The greats of wine all over the world have great affection and admiration for him. What a beautiful man he was and what a privilege to have been touched by him.

  Margrit Mondavi

  Beautiful, Wine, Men

  4 Copy quote

• This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration.

  Pope Paul VI

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

  Karl Barth

  Self, Opposites, Praise

  Karl Barth (2010). “Church Dogmatics Study Edition 20: The Doctrine of Creation III.4 § 55-56”, p.329, A&C Black

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see the profits of our trade snatched from us, to enrich our enemies and persecutors. That unequalled spirit of enterprise . . . an inexhaustible mine of national wealth, would be stifled and lost; and poverty and disgrace would overspread a country, which, with wisdom, might make herself the admiration and envy of the world.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Envy, Enemy

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2008). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution”, p.68, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• In fact, the Alejandro video...is a celebration of my love and appreciation for the gay community, my admiration of their bravery, and their love for one another, their courage in their relationships.

  Lady Gaga

  Appreciation, Gay, Bravery

  4 Copy quote

• Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

  Rupert Brooke

  Friendship, Death, Long

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as I had occasion to become acquainted with the man and his work; and slowly my fair judgment turned to unconcealed admiration. Today, more than ever, I regard this man as the greatest German mayor of all times.

  Adolf Hitler

  Eye, Men, Common Sense

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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?'

  Christina Hendricks

  Birthday, Country, Stars

  "Mad Men and me: Christina Hendricks interview". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.

  David Lehman

  Song, Humorous, Passion

  6 Copy quote

• It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Views, Order

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, 1995.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Eric Stoltz

  Actors, Admiration And Respect

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am in awe, in admiration of the man who Gaius Julius Caesar was. I don't actually do him as the man himself. He is maybe a distant relative. It's hard to approach the real man because he is such an awesome icon.

  Karl Urban

  Real, Men, Icons

  4 Copy quote

• This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, which unites generations and enables them to be one in admiration. And all this through the work of your hands . . . Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Hands, Order

  7 Copy quote

• This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Men, Faces, Trouble

  22 Copy quote

• I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

  Ariana Franklin

  Yield, Bed

  Ariana Franklin (2008). “The Serpent's Tale”, p.406, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen

  Tite Kubo

  Understanding, Bleach, Emotion

  7 Copy quote