Quotes About Appreciation

A joke that required to be laughed at was, with him, not worth uttering. He could appreciate by a keener sense than that of his ears the success of his wit, and would see in the eyes of his audience whether or no he was understood and appreciated.

Everything smiled on her with gilded dimples, and these were the smiles she valued. As

There is a kind of gratification in seeing what one has never seen before, be it ever so little worth seeing;

A man is nothing now unless he has within him a full appreciation of the new era, an era in which it would seem that neither honesty nor truth is very desirable, but in which success is the only touchstone of merit.

CHAPTER XIX 'WHO VALUED THE GEESE?

Friends are not to be picked up on the road-side every day; nor are they to be thrown away lightly.

Es terrible darse cuenta de que uno tiene algo cuando lo está perdiendo

It is only when one faces death, observed one of the men there, that one realises the great value of life.

Neither he nor Schmidt seems to have appreciated that speed was the decisive factor. They

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings; the humble, his blessings.

But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen. -Thanksgiving in Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue

Teachers should be more honored than parents, for whereas parents give their children life, teachers give their children a good life

In support of this claim they point to the words 'comedy' and 'drama'. Their word for the outlying hamlets, they say, is comae, whereas Athenians call them demes — thus assuming that comedians got the name not from their comoe or revels, but from their strolling from hamlet to hamlet, lack of appreciation keeping them out of the city. Their word also for 'to act', they say, is dran, whereas Athenians use prattein.

Never take things for granted. Never ignore what is obvious.

Meat may go up in price — it has done — but books won't. Admission to picture galleries and concerts and so forth will remain quite low. The views from Richmond Hill or Hindhead, or along Pall Mall at sunset, the smell of the earth, the taste of fruit and of kisses — these things are unaffected by the machinations of trusts and the hysteria of stock exchanges.

You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste to-morrow; it is kept for you. You cannot waste the next hour; it is kept for you. I said the affair was a miracle. Is it not?

I hate all the arts! you say. My dear sir, I respect you more and more.

there are a million things we survive every day without recognizing we were ever at risk. Then we have a close call, and we become acutely aware of what that fraction of an inch or that split second means.

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

Now I can rejoice that I knew you, rather than mourn because I lost you.

La primera existencia era un precioso don que jamás se volvía a repetir. Era maravilloso contemplar la vida por primera vez, como en la frescura de la aurora.

Well, it was unreasonable to expect more. Already he had seen wonders for which many men would have sacrificed their lives. He thought of his dead companions; he had no cause for complaint.

But for goodness sake, Frank— forget you're an engineer, and simply enjoy the view.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.