Admiration Quotes

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers. - Horace

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal. My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill. - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.

You have my thanks, my appreciation, my admiration. You can't pay people enough to take the risks that you do. - James McDonough

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of. - Scott Stapp

With all due respect to Scott Stevens, for whom I have the deepest respect and admiration, we have a defense now that I consider better than the one that we had when we last played (2003-2004). - Lou Lamoriello

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it. - Joseph Joubert

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror. - Thomas Day

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities. - John Fowles