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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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"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
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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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"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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"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."
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"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
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"Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it."
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"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."
18
"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
18
"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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"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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"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
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"When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror."
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"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."
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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."
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"The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited."
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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."
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"Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said."That's not what I meant."
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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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"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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"My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless."
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"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."
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"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease."
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"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."
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"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
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"We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure."
13
"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."
13
"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!"
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"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."
12
"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I see you from afar-fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift."
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"I haven't seen angels, but I am sure they are not as beautiful as you are."
11
"Rather than critique people, try admiring God's creative handiwork."
11
"You're not actually falling for him, are you?" he asks her one day, on one of the rare occasions he can get her alone."I'll pretend you didn't just ask that," she tells him in disgust. But Connor has reasons to wonder."On that first night here, he offered you his blanket, and you accepted it," he points out."Only because I knew it would make him cold.""And when he offers you his food, you take it.""Because it means he goes hungry."It's coolly logical. Connor finds it amazing that she can put her emotions aside and be as calculating as Roland, beating him at his own game. Another reason for Connor to admire her."
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"...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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"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."
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"I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist."
10
"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."
10
"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."
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"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion."
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"Let her know that her look really works for you."
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