What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Commonplace," said Holmes, though I thought from his expression that he was pleased at my evident surprise and admiration.” — Doyle, Arthur Conan Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
No matter how sure you are of someones appreciation and admiration, its always nice to be reminded of it. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I'm full of admiration for the Queen. She's done a fantastic job. She has had an awful lot of blocks along the… — Dick Clement Copy Share Image
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Because of the great differences in our ways of thinking, it is inevitable that we have different religions and faiths. Each has… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
When you train everyday with a guy like Rafael, you feel a different energy. It is like you need to show him… — Fabricio Werdum Copy Share Image
What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
With Lenin it was always a substantial commitment. I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“Keishin turned to face her, brushing a damp lock of silver-white hair away from his eyes. Hana had never met a man… — Samantha Sotto Yambao Copy Share Image
My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
“...and it is characteristic of the young to become bound to an older and wiser man not only by the spell of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“After all, a kiss between real lovers is not some type of contract, a neatly defined moment of pleasure, something obtained by… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“I now principally allude to Rousseau, for his character of Sophia is, undoubtedly, a captivating one, though it appears to me grossly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“(…) jest naiwnością mniemanie, jakoby zachwyt nasz wobec dzieła sztuki z nas samych pochodził: że zachwyt ten w sporej mierze nie rodzi… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“My admiration for Britannicus grew as I watched the uncomplaining manner in which he accepted the injustice and the inefficiency and inconvenience… — Jack Whyte Copy Share Image
“All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.” — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
It is better to be admired than to be popular. Strive to be better yourself, and not to please others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have immense admiration for the writer/directors and director/actors who just seamlessly do both jobs at the same time. — Jim Piddock Copy Share Image
“I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want a woman who is better than I am; a woman who… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I would love to study musical composition and become a composer. I have a deep admiration and respect for that sort of… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“I watched as she, with a half-life-worth of anger and resolve, flickered into this dark night and tried with all her might… — Mo Daviau Copy Share Image
That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“ charm \’chärm\ n: a power or quality of giving delight or arousing admiration; an attribute regularly seen in Girls Raised in… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength. — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Most of the people was been hurt so hard but, they still love so hard. We should admire the heart of that… — Vince Copy Share Image
Someone like David Tennant is able to embrace people's love for 'Doctor Who' in a totally positive way. I have huge admiration… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
