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Quotes About Appreciation

Drugs are your friends, treat them with respect. You wouldn't throw your friends in the garbage. You wouldn't flush your friends down the toilet. If that's the way you treat your friends or your drugs, you don't deserve to have either. Give them to me.
~ George Alec Effinger
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
~ George B. Shaw
If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Dac? nu eÈ™ti în stare s? preÈ›uieÈ™ti ceea ce ai, atunci caut? s? ai ceea ce eÈ™ti în stare s? preÈ›uieÈ™ti.
~ George Bernard Shaw
People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
True grace is recognizing and appreciating what you have in your hands instead of trying to keep up with everybody else's "prosperity.
~ George Bloomer
Life is not measured by the breathes you take, but by the moments that take your breathe away.
~ George Carlin
When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritorious, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune.
~ George Eliot
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
~ George Eliot
When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritous, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune.
~ George Eliot
Oh, you dear good father! cried Mary, putting her hands round her father's neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world! Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better. Impossible, said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
~ George Eliot
I believe that people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are," said Dorothea.
~ George Eliot
When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheapening of our lives.
~ George Eliot
Contented speckled hens, industriously scratching for the rarely-found corn, may sometimes do more for a sick heart than a grove of nightingales; there is something irresistibly calming in the unsentimental cheeriness of top-knotted pullets, unpetted sheep-dogs, and patient cart-horses enjoying a drink of muddy water.
~ George Eliot
Oh, you dear good father! cried Mary, putting her hands round her father´s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world. Nonsense, child; you´ll think your husband better. Impossible, said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone, husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
~ George Eliot
You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.
~ George Eliot
he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.
~ George Eliot
am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.
~ George Eliot
Es doloroso oír decir que algo es muy hermoso y no ser capaz de apreciarlo... como la ceguera cuando otras personas hablan del color del cielo. - Hay muchas cosas en la apreciación del arte que dependen de gustos adquiridos (...). El arte es un lenguaje muy antiguo con muchos estilos artificiosos y a veces el principal placer que se obtiene surge del hecho mismo de reconocerlos (p.230).
~ George Eliot
What is your religion?" said Dorothea. "I mean—not what you know about religion, but the belief that helps you most?" "To love what is good and beautiful when I see it," said Will.
~ George Eliot
have been little disposed to gather flowers that would wither in my hand, but now I shall pluck them with eagerness, to place them in your bosom.
~ George Eliot
Let the music which can take the possession of our frame and fill the air with joy for us, sound once more - what does it signify that we heard it found fault with in its absence?
~ George Eliot
Si les choses n'ont pas, pour vous et moi, tourné aussi mal qu'elles l'auraient pu, c'est en grande partie grâce à ces êtres qui ont vécu loyalement une existence discrète et reposent dans des tombes délaissées.
~ George Eliot
I should like to make life beautiful – I mean everybody's life. And then all this immense expense of art, that seems somehow to lie outside life and make it no better for the world, pains one. It spoils my enjoyment of anything when I am made to think that most people are shut out from it.
~ George Eliot