Admiration Quotes · Page 11

“If someone burns out your eye I will take your socket and use it for an ashtray.”

— Anne Sexton

“{Debbs' letter to Robert Ingersoll 's granddaughter} I was the friend of your immortal grandfather and I loved him truly… the name…

— Eugene Victor Debs

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

— Terry Goodkind

I look at someone like Chris Pratt with such admiration.

— Jesse Plemons

Being liked is not required, when you are being effective.

— Deondriea Cantrice

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of…

— Jane Addams

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never…

— Donald Miller

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.

— Vivek Shraya

I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot…

— Scoot McNairy

Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the…

— Jemima Khan

It should have great meaning that of all the titles of respect and honor and admiration that could be given him, that…

— A. Theodore Tuttle

The name 'con artist' really does capture it. They're artists, and I have admiration for all artists.

— Maria Konnikova

“False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.”

— Albert Camus

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

— Jane Austen

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

— Elizabeth Bowen

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful…

— John Ruskin

I would be surprised though if I don't get unbelievable critical acclaim for 'Dirty Picture' and a national award for my actress,…

— Ekta Kapoor

Ellen [Page] and I had only met a couple of times, but had mutual admiration for each other's work. When I first…

— Evan Rachel Wood

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

— Natalie Merchant

King Duncan looked up and swept his gaze slowly around the room. Cassandra, he saw, was defiant as ever. Arald's face was…

— John Flanagan

“There’s something different about him, and I don’t have to think hard to see it. Something about the way he takes over…

— K.A. Tucker

God the Eternal Father did not give [the] first great commandment because He needs us to love Him. His power and glory…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

— John Dryden

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

— Donald Knuth