Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.

All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

Appreciate the creation, respect the creator of it, and admire the source of all creativity.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more...

Peabody, you never cease to amaze me.””One day I’ll tell you about my granny and her five lovers.” “Five lovers isn’t abnormal for a woman’s lifetime.” “Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the...

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.All art is quite...

Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.

During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast...

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

True beauty express itself automatically. It’s not only visible in the material, but around one’s being, and within their aura. I once met a female, who was like that of a jeweled flower. Her celestial...

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you’ve given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt. We are all his family.

His muscles flexed as he stood, and Rosa couldn’t prevent herself from watching with veiled admiration. He was certainly a very beautiful man. She looked away in embarrassment, worried she might say or do something...

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

This is a chance for these servicemen and women to feel the admiration and respect of 20,000 people, reinforcing for them that we as a nation feel grateful for what they have done for us.

If the stars should appear just one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!

Je t’admire, dit le petit prince, en haussant un peu les épaules, mais en quoi cela peut-il bien t’intéresser?

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for...

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.

Never,” he said again.

The birds in the sky can never great the king yet their beauty gives the king to stare at them endlessly, wishing to be with them in the sky.

Love is an admiration that comes with patience. Lust is an admiration that comes with impatience. In all, admiration is common but patience is not!

Purple,Wonder, majesty, and enchantment doesn’teven begin to cover the feelings that I had the first time that I met you that only grew. The feeling was nameless, but as time went on it developed a...

Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they’re just a matter of perspective.What changed my perspective, was her.

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police...

{Debbs’ letter to ‘s granddaughter}I was the friend of your immortal grandfather and I loved him truly… the name of Ingersoll is revered in our home, worshipped by us all, and the date of birth...

This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow, The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of the sky.

I thought about Grissom and the admiration I had for him as a teammate in Milwaukee. I loved the way he played.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen.{Darrow on the great }

He was unique to her among men because he’s impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who’s nature...

A body of work such as Pasteur’s is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins...

The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors.

He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.

{Comment to Delambre on chemist Antoine Lavoisier’s execution during the French Revolution}Only a moment to cut off that head and a hundred years may not give us another like it.

When someone I admire turns out to be a rather normal guy, I get offended because it’s an insult to my jealousy.

There’s nothing easier to control than a person who trusts you. They place their hope in your hands. They place their respect in your hands. What is truly fearsome about such delusional admiration, is the...

personally” enraptured). (Dziennik, 1956, XX, Wtorek I)

Robert Ingersoll’s character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be… none sweeter or nobler had ever blessed the world. The example of his life was of...

It’s not love at first sight, it’s having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty.

What I admire about the modern atheist is not at all his logic, but rather his gift of imagination. There will always be the cartoon versions of Christianity further perpetuated by the extremist atheists who...

This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.

The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither finish nor beauty to the results. In truth, in truism if the reader...

I like your hair down.” He twisted his fingers through the curls.My eyes drifted shut as I relaxed next to him. “It’s a mess. I need to get a haircut.”Hayden’s fingers stilled. “No. You shouldn’t...