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Quotes About Appreciation

Jamie shook his head at me admiringly. "And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse. To think you've a brain as well!" He neatly dodged the blow I aimed at his ear, and grinned at me.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.
~ Diana Gabaldon
For a moment, I saw him as he had looked the morning I married him. Duine uasal was what he looked, a man of worth. But the bold face above the lace was the same, older now, but wiser with it—yet the tilt of his shining head and the set of the wide, firm mouth, the slanted clear cat-eyes that looked into my own, were just the same. Here was a man who had always known his worth.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The world and each day in it is a gift, mo chridhe—no matter what tomorrow may be.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Some hae meat that canna eat, And some could eat that want it. We hae meat, and we can eat, And so may God be thankit. Amen.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Amphora," he murmured against the wide, sweet curve of her lips. His hands slid over the wide, sweet curve of her hips, cupping smoothness cool and solid, timeless and graceful as the swell of ancient pottery, promising abundance. "Like a Grecian vase. God, you've got the most beautiful arse!" "Jug-butt, huh?
~ Diana Gabaldon
To see the years touch ye gives me joy, Sassenach," he whispered, "—for it means that ye live.
~ Diana Gabaldon
All the sounds of the house, from the creak of the back stair under an early-rising maid's foot, to the drumming rain on the roofslates, were sounds he had heard a thousand times before; heard so often, he didn't hear them anymore. I did.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It's strange," he said, "when he was alive, I didna pay him much heed. But once he was dead, the things he'd told me had a good deal more influence.
~ Diana Gabaldon
And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse. To think you've a brain as well!
~ Diana Gabaldon
I am deeply indebted to many people who have shared their love of and insights into these remarkable books with me over the years, none more than Jessica Matthews of George Mason University.
~ Diana Gabaldon
smiled. "Wonderful. Perhaps now you'll stop putting flowers in my
~ Diana Gabaldon
We didn't always get on, you know that, but…yes. We respected each other; that counts for a lot. And we liked each other, in spite of everything. Yes
~ Diana Gabaldon
There is never an end to such things," he said quietly. "But we are alive. And that is good.
~ Diana Gabaldon
took a small sip
~ Diana Gabaldon
This was not significantly assuaged by the reappearance of John, followed by the Duke of Pardloe. Jamie said something remarkably creative in Gàidhlig, and I gave him a look of startled appreciation.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Muchas gracias, my dear," he told her, and bowed low over her hand. "Azeel, please tell her that we could not even contemplate this venture without her courage and help. The entire British Navy is in her debt.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Oh," I said, very touched. "Thank you.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I think Asian men are beautiful.
~ Ali Wong
I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
~ Katherine Dunham
I've always been able to enjoy aspects of my life.
~ Nick Hornby
I have always been a fan of Mahesh Manjrekar's work. I like the way he tells his stories. He manages to focus on aspects of human beings and of society, which we don't often see in cinema.
~ Shruti Haasan
The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.
~ Dasha Zhukova