There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.
Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful.
I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.
Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.
When leaders are worthy of respect, the people are willing to work for them. When their virtue is worthy of admiration, their authority can be established.
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.
