Admiration Quotes - Page 21

• He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Long, Looks, Sun

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.109, e-artnow

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• But she was already in. Gareth couldn't help but stand back in admiration. Hyacinth Bridgerton was clearly a natural born athlete. Either that or a cat burglar.

  Julia Quinn

  Cat, Athlete, Hyacinths

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• ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Mets

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.14, Xist Publishing

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• You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Gratitude, Writing, Heart

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• Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Brave, Brave Man

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1337, Bantam

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• Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

  Jane Austen

  Fever, Littles, Might

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.232, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Games, Bye

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

  Kristin Cashore

  Cruelty

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your admiration by confessing the truth. That directness doesn't work with humans, who are masters of subterfuge. Does this dress make me look fat? Do you really love me? Did you miss me? When a person asks this, she doesn't want to know the real answer. She wants you to lie to her. After two years of living with wolves, I had forgotten how many lies it takes to build a relationship.

  Jodi Picoult

  Honesty, Real, Lying

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• I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

  Donald Miller

  Girl, Regret, Thinking

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.82, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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 shooting range.

  Suzanne Collins

  Frustration, Hair, Should Have

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.278, Scholastic Inc.

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• He looked at her levelly. There was something in his eyes, a sort of quizzical admiration; she wondered if it was simply admiration of Jessamine’s looks. “No,” he said. “No, even though you are the perfect picture of Jessamine, I can see Tessa through it somehow as if, if I were to scrape away a layer of paint, there would be my Tessa underneath.” “I am not your Tessa either.” The light sparkling in his eyes dimmed. “Fair enough,” he said. “I suppose you are not.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Light, Perfect

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• If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Loyalty, Men, Heaven

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• I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

  Paul Cezanne

  Work, Knowing, Fool

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• It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Country, War, Sacrifice

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• We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.

  Lech Walesa

  Wisdom, Fun, Fall

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• Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Spirit, Worship

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden (2007). “The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour”, p.64, University of Michigan Press

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• As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.

  Pablo Casals

  Love, Long, Forever

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• President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that had helped cushion the blow of a would-be assassin's bullet.

  Maureen Dowd

  Blow, Presidential, Pockets

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• The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

  Brendan Gill

  Summer, Morning, Order

  BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

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• We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Mistake, Effort

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• I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

  Anthony Hope

  Understanding, May, Admire

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• Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Somewhere Else, Numbers

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• Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Jealousy, War, Naked

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2004). “Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes: And, The Amateur Emigrant”, Penguin Classics

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• Because of the great differences in our ways of thinking, it is inevitable that we have different religions and faiths. Each has its own beauty. And it is much better that we live together on the basis of mutual respect and mutual admiration.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Differences, Together

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