Gift Quotes
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The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.
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Birds that love high trees and winds and riding flailing branches hate ledges as gripless and narrow, so that a tail is not just no advantage but ridiculous, mashed vertical against the wall. You will have seen the way a bird who falls on skimpy places lifts into the air again in seconds – a gift denied the rest of us when our portion isn't generous.
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My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.
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The Internet is a gift to fashion.
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Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.
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The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.
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Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan or yield my agency to him-without compulsion or pressure, without any duress, as a single individual alone, by myself, no counterfeiting, nothing expected other than the privilege. In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one's agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, "I will do as you direct," is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
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The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
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Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
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From then on, my idea of grace is fulfilling your talent completely, and my only idea of sin is misusing that gift. The dread of not becoming completely what you can be is so strong that sometimes later in life it will paralyze me. How horrible to do the wrong thing, the thing that doesn't express your essence - and how horrible to fall short of your powers, or to discover that they might be more meager than their seemingly limitless potential!
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When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Kindness costs nothing, yet it is a most precious gift.
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Sure, I got lost, which is an actor's worst nightmare. But it is a gift as well, because great things come out of being lost and unsure, especially if you have a controlling side or a perfectionist side, which plenty of us do.
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When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.
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The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.
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It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.
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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
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That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.
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Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
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God gives us a gift, but then that gift has to be worked.
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You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
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No matter how small the gift, God gives the increase.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
