There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

I don’t deal well with admiration if it’s for something I haven’t done. Other than exist.

Her corset was long, with a busk of steel; her waist, as I think I have said, was narrow: the kind of waist the doctors speak against, that gives a girl an illness. Her crinoline...

In the campaign of 1876, Robert G. Ingersoll came to Madison to speak. I had heard of him for years; when I was a boy on the farm a relative of ours had testified in...

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.

I have a secret secret admirer. Not only is her identity a secret—but so is the fact that she admires me.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

The guys can’t take their eyes off Colleen… one of them… probably sees her just like I do, she’s the gatekeeper to another world.

That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of...

Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient.

He (Zedillo) leaves office with the admiration of the people of Mexico. The president told him that he should be proud of what he has accomplished there.

That’s a very admirable quality in a wife. The ability to admit she is in the wrong.

I have a lot of admiration for people who’ve been in relationships a long time, married for years.

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho’ he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to...

Love is one of the strongest feelings one can ever have.

He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was: charged, surcharged. Not a founder of new philosophies — not of that build. But...

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Money’s easy to make if it’s money you want. But with few exceptions people don’t want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten.

Could I but acquaint the world with Robert G. Ingersoll’s humanity, with his ideas and his sentiments of love, patience and understanding, a renascence would automatically take place that would give life and living on...

Shocked? I consider Bob one of the constellations of our time — of our country — America — a bright, magnificent constellation. Besides, all the constellations—not alone of this but of any time—shock the average...

The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.{Stanton’s opinion of the great }

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not...

A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.

When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: “Why?” He replied: “Because no one admired me.

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural world amid which we live can gain on our hearts...

I want to lay my kill at your feet.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

The shades of colours are splendid.

I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to me and I’ll do it, if I can. You don’t have to do...

Don’t expect everyone to admire this world is made up of hate and fire.

You will always be left with how you feel about other people, if you don’t just take in the way you think and tell them how you feel about them.

He bantered us, challenged us, electrified us . . . At times his eloquence held us silent as images and some witty turn, some humorous phrase brought roars of applause. At times we cheered almost...

I want to be the guy who the guy you admire admires. I hope his name is Guy, because I admire M.C. Escher.

Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand

If I’m to have a character that others admire, I need to focus on developing that character. I need to make decisions that are honorable and honest. I need to focus on others rather than...

The death of Robert G. Ingersoll, on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely — noted events of that year in the civilized world. It was also one of the most widely and...

She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He’s like a dragon, ancient and fearless.

I do not think there is a person in this world who has been a more ardent admirer of him than I have been. His life and work have been an inspiration to the whole...

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other’s...

Hero-worship in the sense of expressing our unbound admiration is one thing. To obey the hero is a totally different kind of worship. There is nothing wrong in the former while the latter is no...

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts

Children are lovable and adorable.

Talent is an art of gaining admiration!

All right, Chris, you’ve given me a breather. I’m prepared foranything.And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for youhaven’t gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself.” I kissed him quickly onthe lips,...

I admire Shakespeare enormously. But since I can’t be him, I’m glad that his marriage was unhappy and he’s dead.

He had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed.{Edison’s opinion of the great }