Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.

Andy Serkis

What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.

With less appreciation, consumers will be less able to tap into home equity loans to finance their purchases, which could put a damper on the national economy.

We got into (this business) for the love of wine. We just really enjoy a wide, wide range of wines and have an appreciation of many types of wines.

John Eccles

To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems.

to the Bride and Groom Congratulations on the termination of your isolation and may I express an appreciation of your determination to end the desperation and frustration which has caused you so much consternation in giving you the inspiration to make a combination to bring an accumulation to the population.

A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Isadore Sharp

With China, India, Russia and other developing countries growing in market importance, recognition and appreciation of a brand name will not only help gain market share but also open up many, many opportunities for development.

With any mission trip, I want them to come back with more appreciation for what they have.

We wanted to ensure that the industry and the consumer had the opportunity to walk away from the experience with a better appreciation of the wine industry as it is today.

To show your appreciation of generosity you should not finish all the food. If you finish, the host might misinterpret that they have not provided enough.

To my mom, any success for me is success for you!

Haley Barbour

Weight is something with which many of us struggle, including me, so I have a special appreciation for the educational, physical and emotional value of diet, exercise and other elements of healthier living.

We expected what we are seeing in the third quarter data, which is a moderating of appreciation that, over time, is likely to bring prices back into line with the economic fundamentals that support them, particularly incomes.

We see a slowing in home-price appreciation. But some markets could see a significant decline.

We don't work to get a Nobel or any other prize. But we'd be very delighted with any appreciation of our work.

Jim Clyburn

You get a real appreciation of what we as a people once were ? and can be, ... All of this is very emotionally satisfying to me.

Contrary to logic, people were hoping the Fed would change their bias to a neutral stance. Part of the exuberance earlier was an increased appreciation of the likelihood that we would have a president-elect before the market opens on Monday.

There's a disconnect between appreciation and funding for our Native Hawaiian artists and arts community.

There's no way we can express our appreciation to all these that have participated. Everybody that's just given and given. Can't express how much this means to us.

Michelle Shocked

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

Rajneesh

It is better not to call anything to anybody - just remain centered in yourself. Look at the world and drop judgments, and you will have such a pure atmosphere around you - no appreciation, no condemnation, just a pure watchfulness. This watchfulness, I call meditation.

Raf Simons

We are very excited to re-launch the collaboration with Fred Perry. We have great appreciation for the heritage of the brand as well as their dynamism in guiding the brand towards the future. Their openness to create synergies between both our brands will bring interesting, creative results.

Michael Pollan

Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.

Michael Pollan

When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.

Scott Simon

I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American. But over the years, I came to have a keen appreciation of Charlie Hebdo and what it did.

Seth Godin

Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it.

Seth Godin

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

Oscar Wilde

The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

Michel de Montaigne

Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.

Michael Sandel

I think people who want to use genetic technologies to gain a competitive edge for their children are engaging in a kind of overreaching that could really undermine our appreciation of children as gifts for which we should be grateful and, instead, to view them as products or instruments that are there to be molded and directed.

Michael Sandel

It's possible to make sense of what's morally at stake in an appreciation of the gift of life, or the gift of a child, without necessarily presupposing that there is a giver. What matters is that the gift - in this case, the child - not be wholly our own doing, our own product.

Michael N. Castle

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.