177 quotes found
“No disrespect' is a world away from respect--and admiration.”
“I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.”
“Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration an...”
“If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!”
“How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realised I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michael, but my human angel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no ...”
“Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of thing...”
“Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.”
“Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality.”
“I see you, I see others and I want to see you more.”
“He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.”
“Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.”
“[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.”
“This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.”
“[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.”
“I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.”
“There's nothing easier to control than a person who trusts you. They place their hope in your hands. They place their respect in your hands. What is truly fearsome about such delusional admiration,...”
“Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around...”
“The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more c...”
“Small, therefore, can we think the progress we have made, as long as our admiration for those who have done noble things is barren, and does not of itself incite us to imitate them.”
“I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style. I wanted to wake up with them all transferred ...”
