Quotes About Appreciation

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.

Ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her.

We've decided that your birthday present will be a car, said Marion. Danny was touched. But the thing I can't figure out is, why would I need a new car? You can't very well gate a girl to the movies, Danny, Leslie replied. I think you're overlooking the biggest point here, said Danny. I don't need a CAR so I can date. I need a GIRL.

The disadvantage with people is that you can't put bookmarks in them and set them aside till you want them again.

The stone loves you. Don't you see it? Hasn't it shown you its love all your life?

It was a strange, exhilarating feeling to be with people who didn't want anything from you except your happiness, who were glad just to have you around.

The only gift I have," said Hull, "is the gift of remembering all kindnesses, and trusting those worthy of trust.

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

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.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think that it is rather vain.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.