“It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“If someone burns out your eye I will take your socket and use it for an ashtray.” — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
“Though she liked him for his attentions, and thought them all, whether in friendship, admiration, or playfulness, extremely judicious, they were not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.” — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind,… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen... one of them... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to… — Ron Koertge Copy Share Image
You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Generally, appreciation means some blend of thankfulness, admiration, approval, and gratitude. In the financial world, something that "appreciates" grows in value. With… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes… — John Gray Copy Share Image
There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Early in my career as a domme, I both admired and feared becoming one of those career dommes. I saw, in myself,… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“ He bantered us, challenged us, electrified us . . . At times his eloquence held us silent as images and some… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Iraq is fragile and may fall back into a devastating setting. We're not making the kind of progress in Afghanistan that had… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
There's something really special to me about sharing mutual admiration with another musician. — Liv Bruce Copy Share Image
My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Attract what you expect, reflect what you desire, become what you respect, mirror what you admire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.” — Claude Louis Berthollet Copy Share Image
What we like is not necessarily loved always,but what we always love is summarily liked as well. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image