We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
Tag: art admiration utility uselessness
I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.
Donald MillerTag: love admiration unrequited-love
That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.
Suzanne CollinsTag: jealousy strategy admiration frustration anger surprise
He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.
Takayuki YamaguchiTag: inspiration murder heart jealousy human-nature mankind enemies admiration antipathy envy rivalry love-hate-relationship
Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: love admiration horses superiority hero-worship riding
He squinted at her. He recalled the tears in her eyes that had not fallen into her teacup. No, it wasn’t a revelation. Not even to him. Yet, this was the same woman who had stolen a camel right out from under the Anti-Zionist army’s nose. She’d taken his hand, thrown herself down a sand dune on a dare, and then beaten him back up it. She’d glared at him and refused to part from his side. A coward?
“Never,” he said again.
Tag: love courage admiration
She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
Jeannette WallsTag: life inspirational admiration quality
Taped on the wall was a hand-drawn picture- a stick figure with a bow on the head holding a litterbag.
Suzanne CrowleyTag: love admiration touching
I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.
Albert EinsteinTag: children admiration letter hero correspondence compliment heroic
There are three things admiration affirms; the lack of autonomy, the senility of the mind, and the strength of desperation. Irrationality and inferiority are the progenitors of admiration.
Lionel SuggsTag: admiration irrationality
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