Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clare Boothe Luce

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

Amber Heard

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

Thomas Paine

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Richard Boucher

The minister expressed appreciation for the offer, and our embassy in Uzbekistan will be following up in more detail with them

Robert A. Heinlein

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Rupert Sheldrake

When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.

Thomas Carlyle

One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.

Tom Waits

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

Steve Martin

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

Bobby Clark

A tie on the road at Michigan State wasn't the worst result. It's not going to hurt us if we can take something out these three games.

Bob Rose

Northwest is hurting. They're hurting themselves, and they're hurting the passengers.

Kip Carpenter

The starter is really hurting people. You're supposed to be down for 1 1/2, 2 seconds at the most. When you're down for 2 1/2, 3 seconds, it's a tough position. I tripped up and it just got my timing off.

Les Brown

Somebody's going to get hurt because of it,

Ron Jirsa

Once you solve something, the next thing you see might be tougher. The second half, when we didn't push it up the floor, that hurt us. You want to make them move. When they get back and it's 5-on-5, it's tougher.

Tommy Maddox

It was time to quit working on things and just go play. If we could stop hurting ourselves, we're going to be pretty tough.

Brandon Sanderson

[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise - some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. Unity comes from strife, child." Page 193

Leslie Alperstein

This problem with the President makes it even dimmer yet, ... He's hurt by this. No question.

Jamie Campbell Bower

As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing.

Brad Pitt

It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.

C. S. Lewis

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

Antonio Gramsci

It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.

Daniel Smith

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

Albert Camus

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

Thomas Szasz

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

Tanith Lee

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

Sidney Poitier

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

Michael Fox

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.