When a man finds the woman he really loves, the one he respects and wants to call wife, there is nothing on earth he won’t do for her. No mountain he won’t hike. No river...

The ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white – that you must choose sides – and so the world of colourful gradients goes unadmired.

Admiration is a curiosity.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

Paine was a grand fellow — high—with the most splendid sense of justice. But he was a reasoner — not warm — not letting out the natural palpitating passion… which perhaps he didn’t have. But...

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to...

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...