Gift Quotes
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[At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that.
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I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.
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I think it was a gift. For that performance, silver is generous.
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He who wholly renounces himself, and relies not on mere human reason, will make good progress in the Scriptures; but the world comprehends them not, from ignorance of that mortification which is the gift of God's word.
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God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.
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Non-cooperation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
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Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.
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Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.
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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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It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.
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A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and hidden message, contained in the old-fashioned phrases like 'shy as a violet, 'clinging vine,' not originally conceived as pejoratives, that tells more of the truth - which is that flowers are also emblems of feminine submission.
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Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day.
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You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.
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Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.
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Ours is the Spirit of the Eucharist, the total Gift of Self.
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My expertise lies in what I've devoted my life to. I wouldn't pretend to be a great gift to any other animal. My interest has always been in the horses.
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Never lend people money you can't afford to give them as a gift.
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Your gold buys my service, pleasure of seeing Spartans in battle. It is a rare gift and worth more than mere coins. After all, most men see it only once and never again.
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A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.
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I give you a gift, you're gonna stand here and show up my pitcher? Run, dummy!
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But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent.
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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
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A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.
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Success is a gift, but it's a handicap at the same time, I think.
