what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it's how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.
- Mark Twain
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
- Franklin P Jones
He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open a door at the far end and plunged through.... and in the Library of All the Same Book he actually stopped to examine a few of the volumes, all titled Various, that lined the shelves.
- Chris Adrian
No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it.
- Lloyd Alexander
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
- William R Alger
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!
- John Astin
I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.
- Sean Astin
I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
- Orlando Bloom
I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.
- Emily Blunt
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
- Ronald Blythe
One of the ways we build intimate relationships with other people is by sharing our fears with them, telling them the things that still frighten us....
When we begin to appreciate the ways in which people have been frightened in their lives, we can be compassionate toward them, rather than angry [p. 97].
- Sylvia Boorstein
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
- James Dean
She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn't have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
- Ann Brashares
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.
- Dalai Lama
Most people don't know how to appreciate the silence. They can't help talking.
- Nicholas Sparks
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.
- Bill Bryson
This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.
- Lindsey Buckingham
What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.
- James L Buckley
My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.
- Rick Riordan
Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.
- Rick Riordan
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
- Basil Bunting
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
- Gelett Burgess
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.
- Ellen Burstyn
I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
- Albert Einstein
To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
- Will Carleton
The restaurant, Bongiorno's, was bad and didn't know it. Everything was presented with a passive-aggressive flourish, as though we probably weren't savvy enough to appreciate the oregano-heavy garlic bread, the individual bowls for olive pits, the starched napkins stuffed into our wineglasses, or the waiter's strained enunciation of a long list of specials.
- Jonathan Lethem
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
- Anton Chekhov
One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time.
- John G D Clark
I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got to be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.
- David Levithan
But maybe those things are like background noise if you're from here. Maybe you have to experience this as a whole new place to appreciate it like I do.
- Susane Colasanti
It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.
- Ornette Coleman
I don't think I have the right parts to appreciate '50 Shades of Grey'.
- Chris Colfer
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
- Confucius
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
- Roald Dahl
What colour was her scythe?"
"Sadly, I wasn't able to take the time to appreciate its subtle hues as it tore through my skin.
- Gina Damico
It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find.
- Laura Dave
You'll pardon me," said Beatrice, "if I fail to appreciate sarcasm and all the other brilliant nuances of your no doubt famous wit, Mr. Constant
- Kurt Vonnegut
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
- Charles Dickens
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
- Edsger Dijkstra
I've made a terrible confession to you," he concluded gloomily. "Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
- Frederick Douglass
I enjoy life so much more now, and I try hard to appreciate each and every day, but deep down I am still afraid it will be taken away.
- Jaycee Dugard
On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drinnk between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate.
- Ursula K Le Guin
Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
- Wayne Dyer
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
- Henry James
One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.
- Jerome K Jerome
Some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly. Don't be like them. The ability to appreciate beauty is of God. Especially in one another. Look for beauty in everyone you meet, and you'll find it. Everyone carries divinity within them. And everyone we meet has something to impart.
- Richard Paul Evans
...Ally, some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly...The ability to appreciate beauty is of God. Especially in one another. Look for beauty in everyone you meet, and you'll find it...And everyone we meet has something to impart.
- Richard Paul Evans
We need to appreciate how precious life is.
- Shelley Fabares
I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.
- Jodie Foster
I took a bite of cookie and chewed. "Hmmm," I said, trying not to spit crumbs. "Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips, distinct flavor of brown sugar. A decent cookie, not spectacular. Still, a good-hearted cookie, not pretentious." I turned to Fang. "What say you?"
"It's fine."
Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.
- James Patterson
Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.
- James Patterson
Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.
- James Patterson
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
- John Hope Franklin
I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.
- David Friedman
I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.
- Daisy Fuentes
Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving.... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.
- Paul Fussell
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
- Barack Obama
I got to see the first step, hear the first word. Most people - and certainly working moms - are not able to do that. I wanted to appreciate the fact that I had worked so hard all my life to be able to have those moments.
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
Learning to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you is one of the keys to your happiness.
- Tom Giaquinto
We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made.
- Maurice Gibb
Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.
- Susan Jane Gilman
Love accepts a human being as she is. Love creates the freedom for a human being to be who she is. Love creates the relaxation, which helps a person to relax into her own inner being, into her own authentic self. Love allows us to appreciate the beautiful being we already are.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.
- Michel Gondry
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
- John Goodman
LAW 38
Think As You Like But Behave Like Others
If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.
- Robert Greene
Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.
- Jessica Hagedorn
You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.
- William Christopher Handy
To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
- Nhat Hanh
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.
- Stephen Hawking
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
He doesn't believe in talking too much about art, especially while you're looking at it. The pressure to appreciate is the great enemy of actual enjoyment. Most people don't know what they like because they feel obligated to like so many different things. They feel they're supposed to be overwhelmed, so instead of looking, they spend their time thinking up something to say, something intelligent, or at least clever.
- Robert Hellenga
I really do admire you a bit. You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it. - Colonel Korn
- Joseph Heller
You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.
- Joseph Heller
He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.
- J K Rowling
Tessa fought down an impulse to snap. Colin had a habit of making sweeping judgements based on
first impressions, on single actions. He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human
nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his
own.
- J K Rowling
You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.
- J K Rowling
The trouble with influential books is that if you have absorbed the influence without ever reading the original, then it can sometimes be hard to appreciate the magnitude of its achievement.
- Nick Hornby
How long have you been standing there?"
"Long enough to appreciate the view.
- Colleen Houck
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
- Elbert Hubbard
I've always believed that you must be able to appreciate the things that people can give you, and forgive them for the things they can't.
- Elizabeth Isaacs
...It's hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity....But I've long since lost all such doubts, Ono,' he continued. 'When I am an old man, when I look back over my life and see I have devoted it to the task of capturing the unique beauty of that world, I believe I will be well satisfied. And no man will make me believe I've wasted my time.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a natural, continuing flow of life and use.
- Jane Jacobs
It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
- Angelina Jolie
During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.
- Milla Jovovich
Who inspires me to write? My clone. I just want him to appreciate me as a person.
- Jarod Kintz
The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
- Lauren Kate
It's such a beautiful question, Luce. I adore you for asking it, and I wish I could explain it better. All I can tell you is this: The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
- Lauren Kate
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
- Ken Kesey
I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.
- Chaka Khan
But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.
- Chaka Khan
What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
- Victor Kiam
We did not learn how to feel or experience our bodies, how to appreciate our own strengths, how to value or respect or understand the packages we came in. Instead, we learned how to look at them, to pair sexuality with desirability, to measure the worth of our bodies by their capacity to elicit admiration from others.
- Caroline Knapp
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.
- Jon Krakauer
I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.
- Patti Labelle
Being in your mid-thirties brought benefits, I reminded myself. You began to appreciate tidiness, smallness, things in their place. This is the shape your life has taken, I said. Be existential. Go to sleep.
- Wally Lamb
Don't you oh well me,sir," Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.
- Harper Lee
I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.
- Lucy Liu
I've been trying to really live in the moment because I will never get this part of it back. As soon as the movie comes out, everyone will turn it into what they believe it is, so I've really been trying to appreciate every minute of now. Because I know what's coming.
- Rooney Mara
My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
- Dan Marino
I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.
- Harvey Martin
I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.
- John Mayer
There is something about the act of studying an unclothed body, as an artist does, that allows a person to appreciate it as pure form, regardless of the kinds of traits traditionally regarded as imperfections. In a figure drawing class, an obese woman's folds of flesh take on a kind of beauty. You can look at a man's shrunken chest or legs or buttocks with tenderness. Age is not ugly, just poignant.
- Joyce Maynard
I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.
- Brandy Norwood
as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily , to appreciate more lovingly , our own.
- Margaret Mead
So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?" I teased, trying to lighten the mood.
He smiled swiftly, seeming to appreciate my effort. "Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.
- Stephenie Meyer
my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.
- Anchee Min
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
- Peter D Mitchell
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
- David Mitchell
I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.
- Shigeru Miyamoto
Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.
- Jude Morgan
Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
- Bob Nelson
What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent's own attitudes and view of life... The all-embracing principles of conduct
- J I Packer
Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it.... It's a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are a spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be an artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.
- Ann Patchett
The thing about obsessing about a happy ending is that you forget to enjoy the journey along the way, You forget to appreciate the people alongside you.
- Beth Pattillo
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
- M Scott Peck
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.
- M Scott Peck
Where other women... were lovely, Annie Gamache was alive.
Late, too late, Jean Guy Beauvoir had come to appreciate how very important it was, how very attractive it was, how very rare it was, to be fully alive.
- Louise Penny
In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
- Shimon Peres
It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.
- Susan Beth Pfeffer
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
- James K Polk
More importantly, I also understand my age and am in a better position to appreciate it.
- Rajendra Prasad
There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer.
- Victoria Pratt
It may be that I might have inferred from the pages that life teaches us to diminish the value of what we read, and shows us that the things which the writer commends to us were never worth very much; yet I might equally well have come to the opposite conclusion, that reading teaches us to place a higher value on life, a value which we did not know how to appreciate, and the true extent of which we come to realize only through the book.
- Marcel Proust
'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
- Willard Van Orman Quine
All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.
- Sun Ra
Because of the fact that we've been through so much, we're going to appreciate every step of being parents. I think we're going to savor it and cherish it and we're going to be the best parents we can be.
- Bill Rancic
What it love, you ask. Dear child, love is like the light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime. You must experience the first in order to appreciate the second.
- Ann Rinaldi
And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.
- Jacques Rivette
It true, Bigfoot career been in hole lately. Bigfoot mania of the '70's and '80's but distant memory. I famous for ability to not be see but don't think I not notice you not notice. I blame music television and internet. People too lazy and stupid to appreciate conceptual artist like Bigfoot who appeal is absence.
- Graham Roumieu
Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.
- Gretchen Rubin
You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.
- Leopold Von Sacher Masoch
If you're reading these words, perhaps it's because something has kicked open the door for you, and you're ready to embrace change. It isn't enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.
- Sharon Salzberg
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
- George Santayana
Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.
- Simone Schwarzbart
When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.
- David Sedaris
Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love.
Peony in Love
- Lisa See
So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.
- Darren Shan
Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
- Sidney Sheldon
On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.
- Gary Shteyngart
Look at those clouds," said Jamie, gazing up at the sky. "Look at them."
"Yes," said Isabel. "They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them."
"Look at the shape of the clouds," she said. "What do you see in those beautiful clouds, Jamie?"
"I see you," he said.
- Alexander Mccall Smith
To be able to imagine the ohter, and the experience of the other was what wisdome was all about; but nobody talked about wisdom very much anymore, nor virtue perhaps because wisdom was nto appreciated in a world of glitz and effect.
- Alexander Mccall Smith
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
- Thomas Sowell
The more you appreciate, the more you have to appreciate.
- Carma Spence
I've come to appreciate other people's talents.
- Howard Stern
Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.
- Susan Sullivan
Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.
- Alwaleed Bin Talal
Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from being burdened by an inability to speak they have many different ways to communicate. It is up to us to listen more than hear, to look into more than past.
- Nick Trout
Without fail, he always signed off on these letters with love and he always included Whiskey and Bess in the list of individuals sending this love my way. At the time it made me laugh, it made me embarrassed, but as soon as I softened, as soon as I matured back into his son, I came to appreciate what he was saying -- an endearing and magnanimous reminder of how family will always be the sum of its individual members, be they human or animal.
- Nick Trout
When you learn to appreciate everything around you, that is when you have found the true meaning of life. But when you have learned to love another with all your heart, that is when you have finally understood and start to actually fulfill the purpose of your existence.
- Jamine Isabel E Uy
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
- Jessamyn West
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
- Kanye West
To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.
- John Archibald Wheeler
This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.
- Stevie Wonder
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
- Brigham Young
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
- Mark Twain
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
- Franklin P Jones
He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open a door at the far end and plunged through.... and in the Library of All the Same Book he actually stopped to examine a few of the volumes, all titled Various, that lined the shelves.
- Chris Adrian
No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it.
- Lloyd Alexander
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
- William R Alger
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!
- John Astin
I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.
- Sean Astin
I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
- Orlando Bloom
I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.
- Emily Blunt
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
- Ronald Blythe
One of the ways we build intimate relationships with other people is by sharing our fears with them, telling them the things that still frighten us....
When we begin to appreciate the ways in which people have been frightened in their lives, we can be compassionate toward them, rather than angry [p. 97].
- Sylvia Boorstein
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
- James Dean
She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn't have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
- Ann Brashares
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.
- Dalai Lama
Most people don't know how to appreciate the silence. They can't help talking.
- Nicholas Sparks
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.
- Bill Bryson
This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.
- Lindsey Buckingham
What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.
- James L Buckley
My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.
- Rick Riordan
Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.
- Rick Riordan
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
- Basil Bunting
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
- Gelett Burgess
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.
- Ellen Burstyn
I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
- Albert Einstein
To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
- Will Carleton
The restaurant, Bongiorno's, was bad and didn't know it. Everything was presented with a passive-aggressive flourish, as though we probably weren't savvy enough to appreciate the oregano-heavy garlic bread, the individual bowls for olive pits, the starched napkins stuffed into our wineglasses, or the waiter's strained enunciation of a long list of specials.
- Jonathan Lethem
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
- Anton Chekhov
One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time.
- John G D Clark
I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got to be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.
- David Levithan
But maybe those things are like background noise if you're from here. Maybe you have to experience this as a whole new place to appreciate it like I do.
- Susane Colasanti
It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.
- Ornette Coleman
I don't think I have the right parts to appreciate '50 Shades of Grey'.
- Chris Colfer
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
- Confucius
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
- Roald Dahl
What colour was her scythe?"
"Sadly, I wasn't able to take the time to appreciate its subtle hues as it tore through my skin.
- Gina Damico
It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find.
- Laura Dave
You'll pardon me," said Beatrice, "if I fail to appreciate sarcasm and all the other brilliant nuances of your no doubt famous wit, Mr. Constant
- Kurt Vonnegut
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
- Charles Dickens
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
- Edsger Dijkstra
I've made a terrible confession to you," he concluded gloomily. "Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
- Frederick Douglass
I enjoy life so much more now, and I try hard to appreciate each and every day, but deep down I am still afraid it will be taken away.
- Jaycee Dugard
On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drinnk between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate.
- Ursula K Le Guin
Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
- Wayne Dyer
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
- Henry James
One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.
- Jerome K Jerome
Some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly. Don't be like them. The ability to appreciate beauty is of God. Especially in one another. Look for beauty in everyone you meet, and you'll find it. Everyone carries divinity within them. And everyone we meet has something to impart.
- Richard Paul Evans
...Ally, some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly...The ability to appreciate beauty is of God. Especially in one another. Look for beauty in everyone you meet, and you'll find it...And everyone we meet has something to impart.
- Richard Paul Evans
We need to appreciate how precious life is.
- Shelley Fabares
I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.
- Jodie Foster
I took a bite of cookie and chewed. "Hmmm," I said, trying not to spit crumbs. "Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips, distinct flavor of brown sugar. A decent cookie, not spectacular. Still, a good-hearted cookie, not pretentious." I turned to Fang. "What say you?"
"It's fine."
Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.
- James Patterson
Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.
- James Patterson
Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.
- James Patterson
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
- John Hope Franklin
I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.
- David Friedman
I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.
- Daisy Fuentes
Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving.... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.
- Paul Fussell
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
- Barack Obama
I got to see the first step, hear the first word. Most people - and certainly working moms - are not able to do that. I wanted to appreciate the fact that I had worked so hard all my life to be able to have those moments.
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
Learning to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you is one of the keys to your happiness.
- Tom Giaquinto
We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made.
- Maurice Gibb
Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.
- Susan Jane Gilman
Love accepts a human being as she is. Love creates the freedom for a human being to be who she is. Love creates the relaxation, which helps a person to relax into her own inner being, into her own authentic self. Love allows us to appreciate the beautiful being we already are.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.
- Michel Gondry
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
- John Goodman
LAW 38
Think As You Like But Behave Like Others
If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.
- Robert Greene
Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.
- Jessica Hagedorn
You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.
- William Christopher Handy
To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
- Nhat Hanh
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.
- Stephen Hawking
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
He doesn't believe in talking too much about art, especially while you're looking at it. The pressure to appreciate is the great enemy of actual enjoyment. Most people don't know what they like because they feel obligated to like so many different things. They feel they're supposed to be overwhelmed, so instead of looking, they spend their time thinking up something to say, something intelligent, or at least clever.
- Robert Hellenga
I really do admire you a bit. You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it. - Colonel Korn
- Joseph Heller
You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.
- Joseph Heller
He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.
- J K Rowling
Tessa fought down an impulse to snap. Colin had a habit of making sweeping judgements based on
first impressions, on single actions. He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human
nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his
own.
- J K Rowling
You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.
- J K Rowling
The trouble with influential books is that if you have absorbed the influence without ever reading the original, then it can sometimes be hard to appreciate the magnitude of its achievement.
- Nick Hornby
How long have you been standing there?"
"Long enough to appreciate the view.
- Colleen Houck
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
- Elbert Hubbard
I've always believed that you must be able to appreciate the things that people can give you, and forgive them for the things they can't.
- Elizabeth Isaacs
...It's hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity....But I've long since lost all such doubts, Ono,' he continued. 'When I am an old man, when I look back over my life and see I have devoted it to the task of capturing the unique beauty of that world, I believe I will be well satisfied. And no man will make me believe I've wasted my time.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a natural, continuing flow of life and use.
- Jane Jacobs
It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
- Angelina Jolie
During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.
- Milla Jovovich
Who inspires me to write? My clone. I just want him to appreciate me as a person.
- Jarod Kintz
The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
- Lauren Kate
It's such a beautiful question, Luce. I adore you for asking it, and I wish I could explain it better. All I can tell you is this: The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
- Lauren Kate
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
- Ken Kesey
I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.
- Chaka Khan
But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.
- Chaka Khan
What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
- Victor Kiam
We did not learn how to feel or experience our bodies, how to appreciate our own strengths, how to value or respect or understand the packages we came in. Instead, we learned how to look at them, to pair sexuality with desirability, to measure the worth of our bodies by their capacity to elicit admiration from others.
- Caroline Knapp
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.
- Jon Krakauer
I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.
- Patti Labelle
Being in your mid-thirties brought benefits, I reminded myself. You began to appreciate tidiness, smallness, things in their place. This is the shape your life has taken, I said. Be existential. Go to sleep.
- Wally Lamb
Don't you oh well me,sir," Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.
- Harper Lee
I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.
- Lucy Liu
I've been trying to really live in the moment because I will never get this part of it back. As soon as the movie comes out, everyone will turn it into what they believe it is, so I've really been trying to appreciate every minute of now. Because I know what's coming.
- Rooney Mara
My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
- Dan Marino
I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.
- Harvey Martin
I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.
- John Mayer
There is something about the act of studying an unclothed body, as an artist does, that allows a person to appreciate it as pure form, regardless of the kinds of traits traditionally regarded as imperfections. In a figure drawing class, an obese woman's folds of flesh take on a kind of beauty. You can look at a man's shrunken chest or legs or buttocks with tenderness. Age is not ugly, just poignant.
- Joyce Maynard
I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.
- Brandy Norwood
as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily , to appreciate more lovingly , our own.
- Margaret Mead
So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?" I teased, trying to lighten the mood.
He smiled swiftly, seeming to appreciate my effort. "Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.
- Stephenie Meyer
my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.
- Anchee Min
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
- Peter D Mitchell
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
- David Mitchell
I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.
- Shigeru Miyamoto
Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.
- Jude Morgan
Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
- Bob Nelson
What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent's own attitudes and view of life... The all-embracing principles of conduct
- J I Packer
Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it.... It's a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are a spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be an artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.
- Ann Patchett
The thing about obsessing about a happy ending is that you forget to enjoy the journey along the way, You forget to appreciate the people alongside you.
- Beth Pattillo
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
- M Scott Peck
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.
- M Scott Peck
Where other women... were lovely, Annie Gamache was alive.
Late, too late, Jean Guy Beauvoir had come to appreciate how very important it was, how very attractive it was, how very rare it was, to be fully alive.
- Louise Penny
In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
- Shimon Peres
It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.
- Susan Beth Pfeffer
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
- James K Polk
More importantly, I also understand my age and am in a better position to appreciate it.
- Rajendra Prasad
There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer.
- Victoria Pratt
It may be that I might have inferred from the pages that life teaches us to diminish the value of what we read, and shows us that the things which the writer commends to us were never worth very much; yet I might equally well have come to the opposite conclusion, that reading teaches us to place a higher value on life, a value which we did not know how to appreciate, and the true extent of which we come to realize only through the book.
- Marcel Proust
'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
- Willard Van Orman Quine
All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.
- Sun Ra
Because of the fact that we've been through so much, we're going to appreciate every step of being parents. I think we're going to savor it and cherish it and we're going to be the best parents we can be.
- Bill Rancic
What it love, you ask. Dear child, love is like the light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime. You must experience the first in order to appreciate the second.
- Ann Rinaldi
And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.
- Jacques Rivette
It true, Bigfoot career been in hole lately. Bigfoot mania of the '70's and '80's but distant memory. I famous for ability to not be see but don't think I not notice you not notice. I blame music television and internet. People too lazy and stupid to appreciate conceptual artist like Bigfoot who appeal is absence.
- Graham Roumieu
Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.
- Gretchen Rubin
You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.
- Leopold Von Sacher Masoch
If you're reading these words, perhaps it's because something has kicked open the door for you, and you're ready to embrace change. It isn't enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.
- Sharon Salzberg
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
- George Santayana
Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.
- Simone Schwarzbart
When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.
- David Sedaris
Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love.
Peony in Love
- Lisa See
So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.
- Darren Shan
Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
- Sidney Sheldon
On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.
- Gary Shteyngart
Look at those clouds," said Jamie, gazing up at the sky. "Look at them."
"Yes," said Isabel. "They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them."
"Look at the shape of the clouds," she said. "What do you see in those beautiful clouds, Jamie?"
"I see you," he said.
- Alexander Mccall Smith
To be able to imagine the ohter, and the experience of the other was what wisdome was all about; but nobody talked about wisdom very much anymore, nor virtue perhaps because wisdom was nto appreciated in a world of glitz and effect.
- Alexander Mccall Smith
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
- Thomas Sowell
The more you appreciate, the more you have to appreciate.
- Carma Spence
I've come to appreciate other people's talents.
- Howard Stern
Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.
- Susan Sullivan
Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.
- Alwaleed Bin Talal
Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from being burdened by an inability to speak they have many different ways to communicate. It is up to us to listen more than hear, to look into more than past.
- Nick Trout
Without fail, he always signed off on these letters with love and he always included Whiskey and Bess in the list of individuals sending this love my way. At the time it made me laugh, it made me embarrassed, but as soon as I softened, as soon as I matured back into his son, I came to appreciate what he was saying -- an endearing and magnanimous reminder of how family will always be the sum of its individual members, be they human or animal.
- Nick Trout
When you learn to appreciate everything around you, that is when you have found the true meaning of life. But when you have learned to love another with all your heart, that is when you have finally understood and start to actually fulfill the purpose of your existence.
- Jamine Isabel E Uy
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
- Jessamyn West
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
- Kanye West
To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.
- John Archibald Wheeler
This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.
- Stevie Wonder
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
- Brigham Young
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
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