How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realized I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michael, but my human angel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no hat, with lank brown hair and eyes the color of water.

— Patti Smith

How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realized that I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michael, but my human Angel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no hat, with lank brown hair and eyes the color of water.

— Patti Smith

I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.

— Karen Joy Fowler

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 to me.

— Hanif Kureishi

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't dislike them, nor do I like them. I've never understood why one must love children simply because they are children. Furthermore, I don't love people because they are people; in fact, I rarely like any people at all. If a child is somehow deserving of admiration, I certainly won't deny it, but why hand it out like candy on Queen's Day?

— Kiersten White

I don't worry about what other people think of me. It's one of the things I most admired about my dad growing up. He didn't give a hoot what others thought. He was who he was. It's one of the qualities that has kept me most sane.

— Chris Kyle

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be a universal problem.

— William Godwin

If I'm to have a character that others admire, I need to focus on developing that character. I need to make decisions that are honorable and honest. I need to focus on others rather than myself. Furthermore, I need to be consistent in my dealings with other (while being careful to avoid what Emerson called "a foolish consistency"). Furthermore, I must obey the calls of my religious beliefs. And I must be true to myself, my God, and others. I should never seek the admiration of others, but if I develop an honest, loving, caring character, the admiration will come.

— Tom Walsh

If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!

— Mehmet Murat ildan