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Admiration Quotes
"A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection."
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"Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years."
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"Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems."
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"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
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"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
13
"Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it."
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"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
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"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."
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"I like to see you fully naked like the complete moon."
11
"I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes."
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"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."
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"Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration."
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"By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown."
9
"We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure."
9
"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease."
9
"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."
9
"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."
9
"When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror."
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"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
9
"There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day."
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"The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited."
8
"My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless."
8
"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."
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"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
8
"I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it."
8
"I haven't seen angels, but I am sure they are not as beautiful as you are."
8
"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."
8
"It was as if she was a dream, like London, which he could not entirely grasp and of which he was not worthy. He wanted to be part of it but had forgotten how. It seemed extraordinary and strange that this paragon among women had condescended to travel on his ship. In fact, she'd insisted upon it. Her presence was at once otherworldly and familiar, none of which explained why his brain ceased to function when he was in her company."
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"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."
7
"I see you from afar-fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift."
7
"Rather than critique people, try admiring God's creative handiwork."
7
"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."
6
"I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up," she told Hazel solemnly.Hazel Smiled and ruffled her hair. "That's a good thing to be, Julia.""Although," Frank said. "Frank Zhang would be good too."
6
"Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world."
6
"Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said."That's not what I meant."
6
"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
5
"...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!"
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"If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness!"
4
"I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist."
4
"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."
3
"Let her know that her look really works for you."
3
"Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be."
3
"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion."
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