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Quotes About Appreciation

I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Gratitude' is a euphemism for resentment.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
a friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We humans have to make considerable progress before we can accept a free gift, and value it.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . . it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . . it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. —Thomas Paine
~ Robert A. Heinlein
A present should show that you considered that person's tastes. Something he would enjoy but probably would not buy.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Okay, she was healthy and if a healthy woman liked to be looked at and not as a side of beef then it follows, as the night from day, that healthy men should like to look at them, else there was just no darn sense to it.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I like to feel that I've paid rent on the piece of earth I'm using.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Conceited indeed! Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Her face lit up. "What's wrong with this little stand of trees?" "Mmm. Yes. Now.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Later I inquired into the origin of the word happy and found that it derives from the verb to happen. In other words, happiness is to be found simply from observing what happens. If you cannot be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are not likely to find happiness anywhere. What happens is happiness.
~ Robert A. Johnson
This thing is going down so good there's not enough O's in smooth.
~ Robert B. Parker
I liked the rain. It was interesting to look at, and I enjoyed the feeling of shelter on a rainy day. When
~ Robert B. Parker
Wanting more than you can have will spoil what you've got.
~ Robert B. Parker
Thing about getting a place with a great view," Hawk said, "is, after you moved in and looked at the great view for a few days, you get used to it and it ain't a great view anymore. It just what you look at out your window.
~ Robert B. Parker
And she pressed closer to me and we were silent and I smelled her, and felt her and listened to her, and knew that if I had nothing else but this, this would be enough.
~ Robert B. Parker
And I've met a very wonderful woman," I said. "They're all wonderful," Haller said. "Well, many of them," I said. "I love them," Haller said. "The way they talk, how they smell, the way they touch their hair, everything." "I know," I said.
~ Robert B. Parker
we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted – better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
~ Robert Browning
Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
~ Robert Burns
Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me.
~ Robert Burns
More overblown, effusive praise for Daniel's efforts. "Thank
~ Robert Crais
You're a very wise man. Thank you." He spread his hands. "To possess great wisdom obliges one to share it. Enjoy.
~ Robert Crais
Thanks, Lyle. It's good to be here." Mr. Sincerity.
~ Robert Crais