Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.
I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.
My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.
Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.
Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark. " "Nat Parson's a gobshite. " Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.
All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.
Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.
Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story.
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (. . . ) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no. 134
Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
We live by admiration, hope and love.
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.
To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.
Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.