Gift Quotes - page 5

The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it's really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not. (Chris Van Allsburg)
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. View quote
Christopher Lasch
My #1 goal is to become a successful singer and share my gift with the world. View quote
Leah LaBelle
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. View quote
Joyce Cary
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. View quote
Maria Shriver
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin? View quote
Betty Buckley
Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both. View quote
Carroll O'Connor
I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands. View quote
Gina Gershon
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. View quote
Jim Valvano
I consider everything I compose a gift. View quote
Keith Emerson
Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized. (Mike Ditka)
First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life. View quote
Oksana Baiul
I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day. View quote
Steven Cojocaru
The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation. View quote
Steven Cojocaru
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift. View quote
Tommy Shaw
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing. View quote
Vince Gill
Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God. View quote
Willie Stargell
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. View quote
Rachel Carson
Because finally, "the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience” is held by the same tenure with all his other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot be less dear to us; if we consider "the declaration of those rights which pertain to the good people of Virginia as the basis and foundation of government,” it is enumerated with equal solemnity, or rather studied emphasis. View quote
James Madison
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. View quote
Thomas Fuller
The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it. (Saddam Hussein)
Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth. View quote
Ayn Rand
Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don't want anything but general happiness. Why is that bad? View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli