Here in Barcelona, it’s the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration – not a bunch of half-witted monarchs. – Julie Burchill
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. – Joseph Addison
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. – Bertrand Russell
I had massive admiration for lots of players. Richard Hill would be up there, along with Martin Johnson. – Brian O’Driscoll
As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms. – Baruj Benacerraf
I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation. – David Bowie
But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section. – Daniel H. Hill
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. – E. Stanley Jones
I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I’d prefer not to. – Geoff Mulgan
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. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I don’t deal well with admiration if it’s for something I haven’t done. Other than exist. – Lisa Marie Presley
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them. – Robert B. Parker
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror. – Thomas Day
