Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

The ladies in the United States appeared to me to be extremely domestic. However fond they may be of admiration as girls, after their early marriages they become dutiful wives and affectionate, devoted mothers. And in a country where there are few faithful attached servants, far more devolves upon the mother than English ladies have any idea of.

Then by good luck W. B. Yeats, liking my first book of verse, asked me to come and see him. I owe more to him than to any man living, and my intense admiration for his work was reinforced by my intense admiration for himself.

It's special from the fact Sarah stuck with basketball, knowing she is not going to play a lot. I have a lot of admiration for her.

Everyone looked at him like he was their ... savior, ... everywhere he went he was an object of admiration and adoration -- and yet he couldn't muffle the growing discontent, the helplessness he felt at his inability to control not so much the world around him as his private world, the inner world that was revealed to no one but him.

Sathya Baba

No attention is paid to the blame or praise that others may give. It does not seek the admiration or the appreciation of the listeners. 

George Sand

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Jack Gleeson

I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

Honore de Balzac

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

Raul Ibanez

He always said if he could no longer perform up to his standards or be an everyday player that he would walk away. I enjoyed having him as a teammate, that sarcasm and humor. I have the utmost respect and admiration for what he has done in this game.

Hugh Jackman

great ... I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something. I don't know if my agent was particularly thrilled about the 12-month contract I've signed, but still. It's thrilling. It's such a dream to go to Broadway and do the first Australian musical ever to go there, and playing a character who I have huge, huge admiration for. So, I'm really looking forward to it. I'm probably more excited about that than I've been in a while.

Jacques Chirac

great admiration for the extraordinary work that has been carried out by Germany's chancellor

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We always like those who admire us.

Philip Slater

I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for it is our envy and admiration of the rich that supports their habit and keeps us hooked ourselves

Gavin Bryars

The ideal, of course, is to have the respect of professionals and the admiration of amateurs. I suppose this was the case in the past.

Charlie Rose

The highest admiration I have for my colleagues is not for someone in a studio in New York but for somebody on the ground in places that they've gone to fight to tell the story.

The effort the players have put in has been tremendous. I have great admiration for them for what they do week-in, week-out and year-in, year-out.

Mercedes McCambridge

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

David Stern

Allen proves as well as anyone else has ever proven that if you've got game and you leave it all out there, you pick up the admiration of people around the world. And we love to see that happening. Because that's what shows our game at its best, sort of the teamwork, what it takes to play at the level and what he's willing to put up with in terms of injuries to continue to excel at this level.

Henry A. Kissinger

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal. My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

Pharrell Williams

I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

Terry Goodkind

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

Joseph Priestley

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

Rex Stout

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Samuel Johnson

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Samuel Johnson

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

William Ralph Inge

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

Walter Savage Landor

Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.