Quotes about Admiration

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

Wisdom was a thing that the Greeks admired; but Christ is the true light of the world, it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

I thank God that I live in the age of Wilberforce and that I know one man at least who is both moral and entertaining.

I honor Billy Graham. He is a category by himself.

I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.

I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.'

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Can you explain away love too?' I asked. 'Oh yes,' he said. 'The desire to possess in some, like avarice: in others the desire to surrender, to lose the sense of responsibility, the wish to be admired. Sometimes just the wish to be able to talk, to unburden yourself to someone who won't be bored. The desire to find again a father or a mother. And of course under it all the biological motive.

If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.

She was too beautiful to excite me with the idea of accessibility.

I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,' murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom 'home' must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.