Lends Quotes

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.