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Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life. -- Eliza Haywood
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. -- Charles Kuralt
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn
We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure. -- Mitt Romney
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. -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. -- Albert Einstein
Admiration spoils all from infancy. -- Blaise Pascal
Admiration and familiarity are strangers. -- George Sand
Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases -- Samuel Johnson
Admiration is the basis of ignorance. -- Baltasar Gracian
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. -- Benjamin Franklin
Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision. -- Max Beerbohm
Fools admire, but men of sense approve. -- Alexander Pope
You always admire what you really don't understand. -- Blaise Pascal
Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient. -- A.J. Darkholme
Admiration is one of the chief delights of living. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen -- Tite Kubo
Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us. -- Evan Esar
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. -- Ambrose Bierce
Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious. -- Honore de Balzac
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last. -- William Blake
Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross. -- Taissa Farmiga
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed. -- Jean Cocteau
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. -- William Hazlitt
Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years. -- Josh Billings
Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does. -- Suzanne Collins
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. -- Joseph Addison
Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened. -- Samuel Johnson
A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. -- William Lyon Phelps
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners. -- William Ralph Inge
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree. -- Samuel Smiles
A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts. -- Nelson Rodrigues
Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business. -- Ursula Burns
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. -- Dale Carnegie
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. -- Joseph Priestley
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. -- Bertrand Russell
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false. -- Denis Diderot
The people hung upon His words - that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Admiration is fleeting. Love is eternal. -- Mark Hart
We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. -- William Wordsworth
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. -- Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done. -- Katharine Whitehorn
Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!' -- Ashwin Sanghi
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate. -- William Arthur Ward
Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains. -- Samuel Johnson
Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture. -- William Warburton
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. -- Albert Einstein
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. -- John Adams
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. -- John Polkinghorne
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. -- Joseph Addison
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor. -- Edward Everett
Ignorance is the mother of admiration -- George Chapman
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. -- Minna Antrim
The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God. -- Manny Pacquiao
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. -- Ann Landers
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. -- Ann Landers
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why -- Jean Rostand
Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. -- Rod McKuen
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. -- Jane Austen
I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk -- Lucy Liu
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. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it -- Joseph Joubert
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs. -- Julie Burchill
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 -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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 -- Kingman Brewster
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration. -- Samuel Lover
You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of. -- Scott Stapp
For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy. -- Maurice Ravel
I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job. -- John Major
To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business. -- Susan Cain
This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear. -- Kenny Marchant
Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy. -- Virginia Postrel
I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished. -- Christiane Amanpour
Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde's books in a bookshop makes me smile. -- Orhan Pamuk
I shall always esteem it not much to live in a city where the laws do less than men, because that fatherland is desirable where possessions and friends can be securely enjoyed, not where they can be easily taken from you, and friends for few of thems -- Niccolo Machiavelli
I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil. -- Dilma Rousseff
Hating' is displace admiration. -- LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
Self-admiration giveth much consolation. -- Gertrude Atherton
Worship is admiration becoming adoration. -- Matt Papa
Respect, admiration and trust equals love. -- Hal Hartley
I learned from admiration and osmosis. -- Joni Mitchell
Ignorance is the mother of admiration. -- George Chapman
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. -- Apuleius
Talent is an art of gaining admiration! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Distance is a great promoter of admiration -- Denis Diderot
We live by admiration, hope and love. -- William Wordsworth
There are charms made only for distant admiration. -- Samuel Johnson
Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. -- Oscar Wilde
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence -- George Santayana
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise. -- Karl Barth
Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love. -- Baltasar Gracian
My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless. -- Mercedes McCambridge
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge. -- Joseph Joubert
It's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration. -- Birdman
I encourage all Americans to express admiration and appreciation to fathers. -- George W. Bush
Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. -- John Milton
I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration. -- Tia Carrere
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. -- Thomas Carlyle
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity. -- Anatole France
Life is too short to waste on the admiration of one man. -- Rose Scott
Haters possess misplaced admiration; your life reflects unmanifest desires of their heart. -- LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly. -- John Howe
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. -- E. Stanley Jones
Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation. -- LL Cool J
Some seek fame cause they need validation, Some say hating is confused admiration. -- Nas
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love. -- Suzanne Collins
For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration. -- Natalie Merchant
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe... -- Immanuel Kant
She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it. -- Kristin Cashore
It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together. -- Ayn Rand
I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god. -- Auguste Rodin
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. -- Arthur Helps
Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them. -- George R. R. Martin
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection -- Arthur Helps

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