Gift Quotes - page 39

Take my advice, dear reader, don't talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. (Joseph Farrell)
To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift. View quote
Jude Deveraux
Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil. View quote
Douglas Wilson
Love is a rare and valuable thing, and you don't get to choose its object. You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things-and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there. View quote
Elif Batuman
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books. View quote
Erik Larson
I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened. View quote
Karen Essex
I narrowed my eyes at it. Ming-de's little gift, I assumed. "You look better in color,” I snapped. He sent me a sultry look over his shoulder. "Really? Most women think I look better in nothing at all. View quote
Karen Chance
Then you must be willing to fight," Mircea responded. "Life is not a gift, Raphael; it's a challenge. Rise to it! View quote
Karen Chance
Dogs are a gift to mankind. They are happy and joyful and loyal by nature. They are pure, positive energy and teach by example. That is all that's required of them. View quote
Alyson Noel
I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn't hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you have to make the most of. I've worked hard at trying to look my best. View quote
Catherine Zeta-Jones
When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself. (Kathryn Stockett)
I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It's definitely a gift and for which I'm thankful. View quote
Kevin Hart
I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents. View quote
Kendrick Lamar
I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues. View quote
Clayton Christensen
Last year a Dutch animal breeding centre sent me two chimpanzees as a gift. I killed one and cut its heart out. The other wept bitterly and was inconsolable. The sad chimp has long since happily mated again and lives with lots of other animals on a pleasant game farm near Villiersdorp. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures, but the memory of that weeping chimp has remained with me. It was taken for granted, of course, that he was weeping for his mate but I've since had some thoughts on the subject which made me wonder whether perhaps he was weeping for the human race. The idea is not as silly as it sounds. In our doings there is much to weep over and even a chimpanzee would never behave in some of the contradictory ways we think of as normal. View quote
Christiaan Barnard
You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences. View quote
Curtis Sittenfeld
I am just two and two. I am hot. I am cold. I'm the parent of numbers that cannot be told. I'm a gift beyond measure, a matter of course, and I'm yielded with pleasure- when taken by force. View quote
L.J. Smith
The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift. View quote
Lisa Unger
Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It's not a gift at all. It's more of a concoction than anything else. View quote
Loretta Young
Time is the currency - the highest valued currency we have now. And people giving you their time is so incredible. They don't have to like your book, either. That's a totally separate gift. View quote
Lauren Groff
Jimmy Carter is not loved in Israel, and yet no American president gave them a greater gift than Jimmy Carter gave them with peace with Egypt, and the opportunity to make peace with the Palestinians. (Lawrence Wright)
A champion views resistance as a gift of energy. View quote
Michael J. Gelb
Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift! View quote
Joyce Meyer
If you're not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your 'today.' The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that's yours in Christ. Don't let it go. View quote
Joyce Meyer
I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you. View quote
Joyce Meyer