Gifts Quotes

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

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.

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.

The teams who play against us don't give us any gifts, but we were too kind.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Gifts make slaves.

I'm not against gifts that entertain, but I really believe that some of the most valuable gifts that we can give are the things that help us to develop a skill and be entertaining.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.