Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
~By George Chapman ~
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
~By Joseph Addison ~
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
~By Anna Katharine Green ~
This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.
~By Kenny Marchant ~
If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
~By John Adams ~
If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.
~By Lincoln Ellsworth ~
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.
~By Wilford Brimley ~
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.
~By Philip Warren Anderson ~
I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
~By Jane Austen ~
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
~By George Sand ~
I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
~By Katharine Whitehorn ~
I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.
~By Julia Gardiner Tyler ~
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
~By Marie Louise ~
But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.
~By Daniel H. Hill ~
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.
~By Scott Stapp ~
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
~By Jane Austen ~
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
~By Rene Cassin ~
For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.
~By Maurice Ravel ~
There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.
~By Anne Dudley ~
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
~By Ann Landers ~
Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
~By Kingman Brewster, Jr. ~
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.
~By John Astin ~
I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.
~By Tia Carrere ~
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
~By Minna Antrim ~
We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
~By Mitt Romney ~
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
~By Roald Amundsen ~
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
~By Joseph Priestley ~
Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
~By Rod McKuen ~
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
~By Samuel Daniel ~
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.
~By Robbie Keane ~
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.
~By George Pataki ~
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.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
~By Ann Landers ~
I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
~By Major Owens ~
I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
~By William Hazlitt ~
For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.
~By Eliza Haywood ~
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.
~By Thomas Day ~
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
~By Edward Everett ~
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
~By Arthur Helps ~
Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.
~By Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ~
Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.
~By William Odom ~
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