"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."

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"But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, could've immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was impossible to believe she'd ever had any doubts about her body. The firelight shone on her skin, golden and perfect, making her look like some radiant goddess of legend. I wanted to kneel before her and offer eternal obedience."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Admiration, Beauty, Obedience, Perfection

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

Lisa Marie Presley, American Musician

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"He was generally aware that he had been blessed in her beauty; even in her usual homespun, knee-deep in mud from her garden, or stained and fierce with the blood of her calling, the curve of her bones spoke to his own marrow, and those whisky eyes could make him drunk with a glance. Besides, the mad collieshangie of her hair made him laugh."

Diana Gabaldon, American Author

Admiration, Beauty, Love, Humanity

"I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world."

Julia Gardiner Tyler, American First Lady

Admiration, Possession, Quiet, Talk

"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Admiration,

"...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!"

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Admiration, Values, Comparison, Culture

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

Joseph Rutherford, American Clergyman

Admiration, Earth, Man, Understanding

"There are charms made only for distant admiration."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Admiration,

"I worship the quicksand he walks in."

Art Buchwald, American Journalist

Admiration, Worship

"Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.You always look so cool," she repeated.She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Admiration, Appearance, Love, Emotion

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

"I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world."

"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

"...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!"

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

"There are charms made only for distant admiration."

"I worship the quicksand he walks in."

"Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.You always look so cool," she repeated.She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw."

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"He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life."

"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."

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"Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?"