Admiration

(506 votes)   We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(421 votes)   Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

Denis Diderot
1713-1784, French Philosopher

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(418 votes)   When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!

Carol Alt
1960-, American Model

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(415 votes)   Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(410 votes)   Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Rupert Brooke
1887-1915, British Poet

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(401 votes)   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.

Thomas Mann
1875-1955, German Author, Critic

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(399 votes)   Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Nero Wolfe

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(396 votes)   You always admire what you really don't understand.

Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

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(314 votes)   Admiration is a curiosity.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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