Famous Quotes & Sayings

That's simply because people think the appreciation was not big enough and fell short of market expectations.

It's an awesome feeling. I've grown up as a player and now as a coach having a lot of pride in my country. I've played overseas professionally and have always had a great appreciation for the U.S. and, in particular, USA Basketball.

Fats Domino

I want to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to JaMarcus for opening up and sharing his home with us,

Chris Dodd

I want to express my sincere appreciation to President Carter. As far as I know, it is entirely unprecedented in the 17 years of the BRAC process for a former commander in chief to write to save a particular military base from closure.

I want people to walk away with a real appreciation of the diversity that is there,

The two central banks are likely to hold interest rates this time, especially Korea, because large flows are coming in which is putting appreciation pressure on currencies.

Mary Davis

They basically do this just as a way to express their appreciation for members.

They called and asked 'Why don't we have a Cops and Kids Day and combine it with an appreciation program for the evacuees,'

John Hall

It was hard to watch, never having had an injury problem, to go through a year like that, ... My appreciation for the game has changed.

Bruce Bowen

They've made a sacrifice for us, to protect us and our families. I think more than anything else there's a profound appreciation for them.

They've got a very good tactical appreciation of the kicking game, they can play with width and I thought their mauling game (last week) was outstanding.

B. F. Skinner

I've got a great appreciation for the focus they've brought. We didn't start off as well as we would've liked in the league. For us to be in the championship game after 0-3 ... it's a tremendous credit for all the guys on this club.

E. O. Wilson

It was a great culturally enriching experience. I know that the students went away with a better appreciation of Africa.

Kate Bernheimer

I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.

Alan Cohen

Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

Alan Cohen

Today I set my mind and heart on a new path. I focus my energy on love, appreciation, and my highest possibilities.

Alan Cohen

Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation.

When the U.S. Government shows a proper appreciation of the services of the Negro who has never failed it in every crisis of its history to do his whole duty, to shed his blood freely in its behalf . . . then, and not till then, will I be heard.

Pierre Loti

Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.

Rachel Nichols

I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

Noam Chomsky

Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire.

Evan Thomas

With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.

Kumail Nanjiani

It's not like I listened to music and then stopped. I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s.

Joseph Joubert

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

Ovid

Few love what they may have.

Ovid

The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

Paul Bloom

Our best hope for the future [...] lies 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 Bettany

I never really took into account the number of homeless families. As a kid, we used to feed the hungry at my church every other Saturday, and one day this kid from my school was there. Somewhere between that moment of realization and appreciation for what my Dad sacrificed for us to have, and me becoming "Anthony Mackie" I lost it. This movie [Shelter] really made me realize that, and it was very humbling and very sickening to see that within myself.

Martha Beck

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Oswald Chambers

The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.

Paul Hawken

The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.

Paul Auster

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.

Milo Ventimiglia

When you're in morgue you're seeing life that no longer exists. It gives you an appreciation when you look someone in the eye, you shake their hand, and you hug your friends, your girlfriend, your family. It just gives you an appreciation for the life that surrounds you. At the same time you understand how fragile it is. That you don't need to be an idiot or get so angry at times.