Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.
A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.
I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.
She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.
I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.
We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.
She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
What I really found was that the one similarity between Covert Affairs and Fair Game is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.
My first teacher was Steven Spielberg. I worked on Amazing Stories. That was my first job, as a writer and as a story editor. Watching him and his command of the tools of filmmaking, and his admiration for writing and the story itself, was the greatest lesson I ever had.
For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.
I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the desire for self-advancement, that must be appealed to. Envy is akin to admiration, and it is the admiration that the rich and powerful excite which secures the perpetuation of aristocracies.
It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.
I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.