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You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts. — John Piper

Ever since reading Jean Plaidy's 'Queen in Waiting,' I've felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach. — Lauren Willig

A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death. — Michael Bassey Johnson

But no brutality disgusted her: I suppose she has an innate admiration for it, if only her precious person were secure from injury! — Emily Bronte

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. — Rod McKuen

I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some effection, but with Montana it is love. — John Steinbeck

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones. — Albert Camus

There's a limit to enduring admiration being a substitute for love. — John Irving

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration. — Karl Lagerfeld

A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts. — Nelson Rodrigues

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god. — Auguste Rodin

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 don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you. — Anthony Bourdain

Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss? — Eoin Colfer

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another. — Matthew Pearl

You're a peach full of poison, you know that? Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone. — Frances Hardinge

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. — Thomas Fuller

Like the perfect collision of oils on a canvas.
She was a walking piece of art. Words and all. — Candace Knoebel

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green. — John Ruskin

I guess the higher up on the food chain you go, the admiration isn't just for the hungry, but for the ones that go the extra mile to take a bite. — Angela Richardson

A kind word, a word of encouragement or admiration, could shift the heaviest, most recalcitrant baggage. — Alexander McCall Smith

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line. — Major Owens

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live. — Oscar Wilde

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was the ultimate form of our admiration for each other, with full knowledge of the values by which we made our choice. — Ayn Rand

The sea is in your eyes. Your face is an eternal summer. Whoever told you otherwise is a fool! — Malak El Halabi

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ... — Elizabeth Montagu

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. — Thomas Carlyle

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave. — William Hazlitt

Rather than critique people, try admiring God's creative handiwork. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The shades of colours are splendid. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

True admiration," said Mrs. Keith, "is one half respect and the other half self-denial. — Henry James

Prove that you love me through a lingering gaze and never losing that twinkle of adoration in your eyes. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt. — Julie Klausner

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you. — Rupert Brooke

Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation. — LL Cool J

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own. — Jo Brand

It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration. — Claire Tomalin

The objects which we admire have no absolute value in themselves ... — Marcel Proust

I admire you", said the little prince, with a little shrug of his shoulders, "but what is there about my admiration that interests you so much? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Apparently, in the eyes of the law, my admiration of Justin Bieber is creepy. — Kim Kardashian

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. — E. Stanley Jones

I see you, I see others and I want to see you more. — Pushpa Rana

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Being a leader was nerve-wracking, but with responsibility comes great admiration. — Felicia Day

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life. — Gregor Mendel

Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration. — Birdman

I would fly to the moon with my wings of love so that I could express my lifelong admiration of you. — Debasish Mridha

Children are lovable and adorable. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section. — Daniel H. Hill

Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience?
Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that his audience — Miguel El Portugues

Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. — Ayn Rand

My admiration stranger within our gates, who hesitates not to speak the truth. — George S. Clason

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't admire the person who does what they want to do. I admire the person who does what they're afraid to do. — Donna Lynn Hope

I have the greatest respect and admiration for Congressman Issa, but I don't intend to be Darrell Issa-like. — Jason Chaffetz

She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless. — Alice Hoffman

The whole thing that makes a mathematician's life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues. — Donald Knuth

A starry night moon looks at you with admiration because in her eyes you are a star. — Debasish Mridha

People were drawn to her the way a moth clings to a porch light, and I was the most hypnotized of all. — Brielle A. Marino

Cold admiration, when studying the works of God, anyone may have, but the warmth of love can only be kindled in the heart by God's Spirit. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait. — Henry A. Kissinger

At this moment what is demanded by the prevailing orthodoxy is an uncritical admiration of Soviet Russia. Everyone — George Orwell

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
And men take care that they should. — Jane Austen

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. — Orson Scott Card

Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand — Ole H.

In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"
Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology — Zack Love

What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone's company you love them. — Iris Murdoch

The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten. — Roman Payne

Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them. — Jeremiah Seed

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years. — Daniel Boulud

Erik got to his feet, aware of her watching him, and tried not to preen at the frank admiration in her eyes. Preening was not manly. — Tiffany Snow

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. — Jane Austen

My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top. — Kevin Spacey

Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

Sergeant Colon was lost in admiration. He'd seen people bluff on a bad hand, but he'd never seen anyone bluff with no cards. — Terry Pratchett

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision. — Max Beerbohm

No disrespect' is a world away from respect--and admiration. — Susanne Dunlap

I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration. — Jimmy Connors

The match I struck shall not run dead
You're my first inhale, my last cigarette. — Mie Hansson

I loved being admired by Richard. It was the kind of admiration that mattered to me. I felt adored, worshipped. — Elizabeth Taylor

I am not immersed in self-admiration. — Saul Leiter

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. — Joseph Priestley

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. — Edmund Burke

If you are not admired no one will take the trouble to disapprove. — Truman Capote

Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us. — Evan Esar

I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to. — Geoff Mulgan

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. — Elbert Hubbard

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. — Katharine Hepburn

Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled. — Neil Gaiman

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married. — Katharine Hepburn

His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me. — J. B. Torrance

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. — George Sand

You started to feel that if he was around, then everyone else, even the landscape, was just background. — Terry Pratchett

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life. — Yoko Ono