Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Chinmoy

When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.

John Amos

This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, I've never experienced writing like this before, except for 'Fences,' something that addresses me as an individual, addresses me as a black man and addresses the history of the African-American culture and the African-American experience in this country.

Paul Bloom

Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

Paul Bloom

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.

Barack Obama

As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.

Bonnie Raitt

Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Louis D. Brandeis

During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives due appreciation of the opportunities which this hospitable country affords. My approach to Zionism was through Americanism.

Annie Gottlieb

Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

Blake Lively

I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.

Goolam Ballim

As a general rule, as income rises, so debt increases, but in the very low income groups we find an extraordinarily high ratio of debt.

Isaac Newton

If I saw further than other men, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Alan Zweibel

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

Jessica Simpson

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

Ryan Clark

I've been proving people wrong for a long time,

Tim Miles

I've been in that situation a lot. People look at you like they're going to whip you.

Brad Wilkerson

I've been in this organization, the Montreal/Nationals organization, from the onset of it. It's just a shock that I'm not going to be with the same organization, the same people I've been around my whole career. That's going to be different.

Mandy Moore

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Christie Brinkley

I urge people to make your workout fun.

Robert Gerard

I unequivocally think there is no place for steroids in the sport. There are tens of thousands of young people that look up to these athletes.

Ted Strickland

The zeitgeist is clear. People in this state want change. They're tired of scandal. They want to turn things around, and that's just what we are going to do.