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Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.
You can love someone but not want to keep a gift from that person. It's okay to pass an item along to someone who will appreciate it more.
You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.
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.
The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them.
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.
My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.]
Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.
You appreciate just being able to work because there are so many actors that aren't. You have to appreciate every single job just the same.
My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.
I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.
Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.
The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough.
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.
A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation.
Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.
Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination.
It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.
People don't appreciate their intestines until something goes wrong. But I always hope that people gain a little appreciation for their guts.
I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.
I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.
The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model
My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism.
When you do what you're supposed to do and don't complain much, I think the fans, media, players and front office appreciate and respect that.
I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money.
Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.
I am just going to try to run my personal best. If it comes as a world record, I would appreciate it. But I would treat it as a personal best.
There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
Had I not spent so much time doing something that made me so miserable, I would have never learned how to appreciate doing what brings me joy.
I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.
No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.
Don't tell me what I need. Start looking at the people in front of you, appreciate the diversity in the community, respect it. Don't debate it.
I have great respect for Dan Gilbert and the Cleveland Cavaliers, and I greatly appreciate the discussions we had regarding their organization.
To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.
I just want everyone out there to know that I'm super-awesome and a great guy and really cool to talk to and that I appreciate all the support.
You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to make.
When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally.
I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.
Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.
Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence
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.