Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
- John Lennon
But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.
- Richard Adams
I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
- Christina Aguilera
A thick skin is a gift from God.
- Konrad Adenauer
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
- Publilius Syrus
oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you've been given it, I'd as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift.
- Cecelia Ahern
Life seemed to him a gift; the statement 'I am alive' seemed to him to contain a satisfactory certainty and many other things, held up as indubitable, seemed to him uncertain.
- James Joyce
May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble."
"Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..."
"It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.
- Veronica Roth
I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink.
- Jim Al Khalili
Every person on earth has a gift," he began. "In some, the gift manifests itself
spontaneously; others have to work to discover what it is.
- Paulo Coelho
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.
- Paulo Coelho
What is a Gift?"
"A Gift is your way of serving the world.
- Paulo Coelho
Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.
- Paulo Coelho
Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.
- Paulo Coelho
Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
- Dante Alighieri
Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don't have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.
- Cassandra Clare
I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.
- Tom Allen
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.
- Margery Allingham
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
It doesn't matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn't have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays.
- Carol Alt
What a gift. This page is briefly stained by my tears of gratitude. Novelists don't usually have it so good, do they, when something real happens (something unified, dramatic and pretty saleable), and they just write it down?
- Martin Amis
Livia, I've imposed enough. I don't need to take any more of your food."
Livia shook her head as well. "Yes. Yes, you do. You really do. I need to see you eat until you're full. That will be a gift to me. A pleasure for me. Be fullthat's all I ask in return for making you this meal.
- Debra Anastasia
I hope you know how rare a girl like Livia is."
Blake nodded, but said nothing.
"I've only met a few souls as crystal clear as hers," Bea continued. "One of them was my Aaron; we were married for sixty-two years.
Souls like that, my boy, are a gift. Cherish her."
"I will." Blake stood and gave Bea a formal bow only he could get away with.
- Debra Anastasia
A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
- Marian Anderson
Why a raven?"
"To honor my father."
"The writing under it, is that Cyrillic?"
"Yes."
"What does it say?"
"Dar Vorona. Gift of the Raven. I am my father's gift."
"The raven is holding a bloody sword."
"I never said it was a nice gift.
- Ilona Andrews
On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.
- Ilona Andrews
Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
- Maya Angelou
Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.
- Hermann Hesse
Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won.
- Hermann Hesse
Then Prometheus, in his perplexity as to what preservation he could devise, stole from Hephaestus and Athena wisdom in the arts together with fire -- since by no means without fire could it be acquired or helpfully used by any -- and he handed it there and then as a gift to man.
- Plato
Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".
- Plato
Anger Is A Gift
- Aristotle
I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.
- Karen Armstrong
You're perfect, baby."
I blinked. Then I whispered, "Knight "
"No, Anya, no fucked up shit outta that sweet mouth. I'm not gonna listen to it and I'll work my balls off, I don't care if it takes decades, to make you stop even thinkin' it. Instead, you gotta know that every second I spend with you it becomes more and more clear that you were made for me. A gift I don't deserve, didn't earn but I'm not giving it back.
- Kristen Ashley
A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found faithful and true in all things, they are called no longer servants, but friends. His friends are the ones he will take into his kingdom and with whom he will associate in an eternal inheritance.
- Marvin J Ashton
How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of usthe gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.
- Marvin J Ashton
There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life.
- Sean Astin
Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.
- Margaret Atwood
Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen.
- Melina Marchetta
Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each day is a blessing that brings an abundance of happiness. Therefore, finding happiness should be like finding a gift in a stack of gifts.
- Steve Maraboli
The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.
- Leo Babauta
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
- Richard Bach
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
- Richard Bach
There is no such thing as a problem with out a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
- Richard Bach
I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don't even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he's worthy of even considering it, and I just don't see that happening.
- P C Cast
What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
- Erykah Badu
I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.
- Erykah Badu
Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
- Erykah Badu
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The first time I'd entered the Fold, I'd feared the darkness and my own death. Now, darkness was nothing to me, and I knew that soon death would seem like a gift. I'd always known I would have to return to the Unsea, but as I looked back, I realized that some part of me had anticipated it.
- Leigh Bardugo
...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.
- Julian Barnes
A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera)
There's no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's a gift. (Artemis)
Nothing is ever freely given. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.
- Cecilia Bartoli
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.
- Charles Baudelaire
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
- Charles M Schulz
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
- Blaise Pascal
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
- Albert Camus
Never look a gift lion in the mouth.
- Lemony Snicket
Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.
- L M Montgomery
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)
- John Steinbeck
There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you're that important.
- Aimee Bender
We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.
- David Letterman
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
- Ambrose Bierce
Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.
- Chris Bohjalian
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello
- Tamora Pierce
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.
- Ray Bradbury
Oh bats, oh bats, oh snacks with wings
Come and hear how Taggle sings!
Oh squirm, oh squeak, my wriggly bats
You'll make a gift for lady cats!
- Erin Bow
I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
- Billy Boyd
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
- Carl Sandburg
The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.
- Johannes Brahms
Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is another victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frusturated!"
There was a brief pause.
"In the end they shall kill us. But first they shall fear us!
- Brandon Sanderson
We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don't that we can consciously put the magic in; it doesn't work that way. When the magic comes, it's a gift.
- Madeleine L Engle
In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.
- Sydney Brenner
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.
- Sarah Brightman
I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that's kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I'm grateful for it.
- Po Bronson
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
- Anita Brookner
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
- Louise Brooks
I wish the rose was as beautiful as the woman who gives it as a gift...but to say so would be to lie. But I will accept the lesser if it pleases the greater of the two...and I say, THANK YOU
- Tonny K Brown
Love is always bestowed as a gift!
freely, willingly, and without expectation....
We don't love to be loved, we love to love
- Nicholas Sparks
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Women hate a debt as men a gift.
- Robert Browning
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.
- Betty Buckley
I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn."
"Yeah, it's a gift.
- Rick Riordan
Odd to you, but to me, that's my death day. Dead to ever living a normal life again. When I saw you sitting on the pier, I kind of thought of it as a gift...a beautiful...hopeful gift.
- Laura Burks
We'd been given a gift and our job now was to unwrap it...and see what's inside.
- Todd Burpo
all abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another. i could not have done what i have done as a writer had i been a gifted mathematician or physicist.
honesty wrung out of him by pain, he cried out with a loud voice.
- William S Burroughs
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
- Leo Buscaglia
Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people.
Jack: I see you.
Rose: And?
Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.
- James Cameron
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
- Truman Capote
Buut how to fight with singers, how to win a gift that could only be given freely- those were questions whose answers could not be found.
- Orson Scott Card
Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.
- Richard Carlson
Care for her. He was unworthy of such a gift. Unworthy of her blind trust and her sparkling, slightly crooked smiles, let alone her heart. But he wanted her, selfish fool he was and had always been. Care for her? Ah, God, she consumed him.
- V S Carnes
It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift.
- David Carradine
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.
- Joyce Cary
I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.
- Joyce Cary
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
If only there were a game whose winning required a gift for the identification of missed opportunities and of things lost and irrecoverable, a knack for the belated recognition of truths, for the exploitation of chances in imagination after it's too late!
- Michael Chabon
But the boy had a gift. And it was in the nature of a gift that it be endlessly given.
- Michael Chabon
Then you must be willing to fight," Mircea responded. "Life is not a gift, Raphael; it's a challenge. Rise to it!
- Karen Chance
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
- Bill Cosby
All my life, I'd been on the receiving end of my mother's endless tenderness and vigilant care. Being allowed to care for her during her recovery was a gift the most rewarding experience in my life.
- Kristin Chenoweth
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept, not a spiritual practice. Hope, I began to realize, was not a state of life. It was at best a gift of life.
- Joan D Chittister
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
- Septima Clark
Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.
- John Clayton
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
- Chris Cleave
That whole week, we started to divide things into those two categories: anything or something. A piece of jewelry bougth at a department store: anything. A piece of jewelry made by hand: something. A dollar: anything. A sand dollar: something. A gift certificate: anything. An IOU for two hours of starwatching: something. A drunk kiss at a party: anything. A sober kiss alone in a park: something.
- David Levithan
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Never looking back, or too far in front of me. The present is a gift, and I just wanna to be.
- Common
I imagine giving someone such a gift and then having it returned. Parents are always giving things that are not taken.
- Ally Condie
Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.
- Donna Jo Napoli
My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
- Barbara Corcoran
Erase from your vocabulary the word "someday." Do not save things for "special occasions." Take into account the fact that every day is special. Every day is a gift that we must appreciate and be thankful for. Wear your attractive clothes, wear your nice perfume, use your fine silverware and dishes, and drink from your expensive crystal glasses ... just because. Live every day to the fullest and savor every minute of it.
- Rodolfo Costa
Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.
- Michael Crichton
learning 's a gift, even when "pain" ,s your teacher!
- Michael Jordan
They said every year was a gift, not a guarantee, and ought to be celebrated accordingly.
- Sarah Cross
(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)
- E E Cummings
she is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.
- Michael Cunningham
I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.
- Betty Cuthbert
Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.
- Josee D Amore
My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.
- Puff Daddy
He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.
- Kurt Vonnegut
It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.
- Miles Davis
I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.
- John Denver
He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.
- Lauren Destefano
The gift of the Holy Ghost is a gift of power. The Holy Ghost inspires and heals, guides and warns, enhances our natural capacities, inspires charity and humility, makes us smarter than we are, strengthens us during trials, testifies of the Father and the Son, and shows us "all things" that we should do. He helps us do more and become more than we could ever do or become on our own.
- Sheri L Dew
Yauch was a gifted MC.
- Michael Diamond
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
- Kate Dicamillo
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
- Charles Dickens
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
- Franz Kafka
It was wrong and impossible and illicit and yet each minute with the boy was a gift, a scene from a story he could not leave.
- Anthony Doerr
Think of every single thing that we 'have to' do to get through a day as something that we 'get to' do... before our turn is over.
Everything is a gift.
- Mike Dooley
Why do children love to hide and seek? Ask any person who has a passion to explore and discover and create. The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life.
- W Paul Young
Perhaps you'll apprentice to a healer when you're older," Grete suggested. "I'd say you have the gift for it."
Hen reddened, then seemed suddenly fascinated with a speck on her shoe. "Be nice to have a gift for something," she said after a moment. "But they don't let girls apprentice, now, do they?"
Grete harrumphed. "A bunch of fools, the lot who came up with that system. You lose half the world's brainpower that way.
- Frances O Roark Dowell
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
- Horace
Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.
- Carol Ann Duffy
Life is a gift...
Life is a test...
Life is temporary assignment...
- Rick Warren
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
- Ursula K Le Guin
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
- Wayne Dyer
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
- Freeman Dyson
Have people been staring at you?'
He frowns. 'I don't know. I guess so. I forgot it was there. Can you really notice it?'
'Well yeah, but ... I think it's great.' To me, Danny rocking up to surf with graffiti all over his face is magic. I want to tell him that I think he's precious, that the fact he talks to me is a gift. But of course you can't say things like that to people
- Kirsty Eagar
It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.
- Gregg Easterbrook
I don't think I pity her. She doesn't strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don't know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don't insist upon that. It's her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me.
- Henry James
A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.
- Kim Edwards
Forgiveness is a funny thing. We act like it has to be earned, as if there are a certain number of hoops someone can jump through to make us forget that they hurt us. But forgiveness can't be earned! It can only be given freely, as a gift!
- Louisa Edwards
High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.
- Zac Efron
When someone works for less pay than she can live on -- when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently -- than she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made of a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.
- George Orwell
The future is not a gift. It is an achievement.
- Robert Kennedy
You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.
- Michelle Moran
I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said.
"DON'T SOUND SO ASHAMED," he said. "READING IS A GIFT."
"I learned it from you," I told him.
"IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT- IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT. IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.
- John Irving
This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God's way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.
- Elisabeth Elliot
I consider everything I compose a gift.
- Keith Emerson
Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.
- Garrison Keillor
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
- Garrison Keillor
She found only the healer in him. All else was pushed aside. There was so much selflessness, so much purity of soul, Shea could only marvel. She followed his lead without reservation. He was the epitome of what she had always striven to be. A true healer, with a gift so rare and precious, she felt humbled in his presence. Later she could remember that Gregori was a powerful ancient, that he could make anyone believe and see anything he wanted.
- Christine Feehan
That be the jealousy talking," Gator said, in no way perturbed. "I can't help the way the women love me. I was born with the gift."
The men hooted and made rude noises. "You were born with a gift of bullshitting." Sam pointed out, "but that's about it." He looked at Dahlia. "Pardon me, ma'am, but its the truth."
"I rather thought it was," she agreed.
- Christine Feehan
My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.
- Allyson Felix
I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.
- Allyson Felix
Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah.
- Craig Ferguson
Canis latrans," Wolfenson finally remarked.
Fincher furrowed his brow. "Latin for... barking dog?"
"Yes, the coyote. They have a gift of making the howls of a few sound like the howls of the many." He looked toward the roadblock of brick and mortar. "I believe that's why the Landlord chose them as his messengers.
- Richard Finney
She turned to Vetch and he caught her hands as they reached out for him. "I wanted power, I always wanted it, but it's stronger than I am! I can't control the Unworld, Vetch, or the real world either. I can't make it do what I want! The forest is too strong."
Vetch crouched, his narrow face close to hers. "You will, Chloe. I promise you." He glanced at Mac. "Ask him. God gives no one a gift he cannot master. Right, Priest?
- Catherine Fisher
I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.
- Dan Fogelberg
And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.
- Gayle Forman
Such a gift might be easily taken back again.
- Veronica Franco
Well, I get under people's skins. It's a gift I have, what can I say?
- James Patterson
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
- Thomas Fuller
That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.
- Charles Frazier
Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.
- Charles Frazier
I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.
- Ace Frehley
There is no such things as God's word on earth. Or if there is it is not to be found in books.
-Then where is it to be found?-
In love. In the laughter of children. In a gift given. In a life saved. In the quiet of morning. In the dead of night. In the sound of the ocean, or the sound of a car. It can be found in anything, anywhere. It is the fabric of our lives, our feelings, the people we live with, things we know to be real.
- James Frey
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]
- Northrop Frye
There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.
- Diana Gabaldon
I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.
- Diana Gabaldon
I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
- Mavis Gallant
I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.
- James Galway
Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.
- Cristina Garcia
I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.
- Ana Gasteyer
...But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet..
- Anna Gavalda
Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.
- Ricky Gervais
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
- A Bartlett Giamatti
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )
- Nikki Giovanni
...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.
- Seth Godin
You're a gift, one I'll always treasure. You're a dream I never want to wake up from. You open my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me. Be safe. Be smart. Stay you.
- Ellen Hopkins
But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.
- Ellen Hopkins
You are a gift to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you have to do is find it. Do not give up on yourself, or the truths you have realized. Do not give in to those who could crush your dreams like nutshells. And never turn away from forever love.
- Ellen Hopkins
Freedom is such a gift.
- Ryan Gosling
He tugged my zipper down like he was unveiling a gift, spreading my pants open. "Yeah. There it is. You have a nice fat dick. I would have never guessed it."
"I'm Italian," I said inanely.
- L B Gregg
What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?
If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assistance is the universe offering you as support? I was given an amazing mentor, a poet, Eleanor Drewry Dolan, who taught me the importance of every word. To my utter amazement, there were times she found it necessary to consult three dictionaries to evaluate one word.
- Kathleen Grissom
One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.
- Laurell K Hamilton
Time is a gift. Something to be treasured and never taken for granted.
- Lauren Hammond
I wore it, this careless thing you don't even remember giving to me from your bag. It wasn't a gift, this thing I'm returning. It was barely a gesture, almost forgotten already, this thing I wore like it was dear to me. And it was. No wonder we broke up.
- Daniel Handler
It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.
- Daniel Handler
Boy to his dying grampa: I am a century wide. I think that I have my literal age but am surrounded in a radius of years. I think that these years of days, this near century of years, is a gift from you.
- P Harding
- John Lennon
But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.
- Richard Adams
I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
- Christina Aguilera
A thick skin is a gift from God.
- Konrad Adenauer
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
- Publilius Syrus
oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you've been given it, I'd as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift.
- Cecelia Ahern
Life seemed to him a gift; the statement 'I am alive' seemed to him to contain a satisfactory certainty and many other things, held up as indubitable, seemed to him uncertain.
- James Joyce
May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble."
"Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..."
"It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.
- Veronica Roth
I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink.
- Jim Al Khalili
Every person on earth has a gift," he began. "In some, the gift manifests itself
spontaneously; others have to work to discover what it is.
- Paulo Coelho
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.
- Paulo Coelho
What is a Gift?"
"A Gift is your way of serving the world.
- Paulo Coelho
Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.
- Paulo Coelho
Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.
- Paulo Coelho
Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
- Dante Alighieri
Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don't have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.
- Cassandra Clare
I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.
- Tom Allen
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.
- Margery Allingham
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
It doesn't matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn't have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays.
- Carol Alt
What a gift. This page is briefly stained by my tears of gratitude. Novelists don't usually have it so good, do they, when something real happens (something unified, dramatic and pretty saleable), and they just write it down?
- Martin Amis
Livia, I've imposed enough. I don't need to take any more of your food."
Livia shook her head as well. "Yes. Yes, you do. You really do. I need to see you eat until you're full. That will be a gift to me. A pleasure for me. Be fullthat's all I ask in return for making you this meal.
- Debra Anastasia
I hope you know how rare a girl like Livia is."
Blake nodded, but said nothing.
"I've only met a few souls as crystal clear as hers," Bea continued. "One of them was my Aaron; we were married for sixty-two years.
Souls like that, my boy, are a gift. Cherish her."
"I will." Blake stood and gave Bea a formal bow only he could get away with.
- Debra Anastasia
A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
- Marian Anderson
Why a raven?"
"To honor my father."
"The writing under it, is that Cyrillic?"
"Yes."
"What does it say?"
"Dar Vorona. Gift of the Raven. I am my father's gift."
"The raven is holding a bloody sword."
"I never said it was a nice gift.
- Ilona Andrews
On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.
- Ilona Andrews
Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
- Maya Angelou
Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.
- Hermann Hesse
Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won.
- Hermann Hesse
Then Prometheus, in his perplexity as to what preservation he could devise, stole from Hephaestus and Athena wisdom in the arts together with fire -- since by no means without fire could it be acquired or helpfully used by any -- and he handed it there and then as a gift to man.
- Plato
Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".
- Plato
Anger Is A Gift
- Aristotle
I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.
- Karen Armstrong
You're perfect, baby."
I blinked. Then I whispered, "Knight "
"No, Anya, no fucked up shit outta that sweet mouth. I'm not gonna listen to it and I'll work my balls off, I don't care if it takes decades, to make you stop even thinkin' it. Instead, you gotta know that every second I spend with you it becomes more and more clear that you were made for me. A gift I don't deserve, didn't earn but I'm not giving it back.
- Kristen Ashley
A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found faithful and true in all things, they are called no longer servants, but friends. His friends are the ones he will take into his kingdom and with whom he will associate in an eternal inheritance.
- Marvin J Ashton
How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of usthe gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.
- Marvin J Ashton
There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life.
- Sean Astin
Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.
- Margaret Atwood
Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen.
- Melina Marchetta
Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each day is a blessing that brings an abundance of happiness. Therefore, finding happiness should be like finding a gift in a stack of gifts.
- Steve Maraboli
The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.
- Leo Babauta
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
- Richard Bach
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
- Richard Bach
There is no such thing as a problem with out a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
- Richard Bach
I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don't even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he's worthy of even considering it, and I just don't see that happening.
- P C Cast
What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
- Erykah Badu
I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.
- Erykah Badu
Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
- Erykah Badu
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The first time I'd entered the Fold, I'd feared the darkness and my own death. Now, darkness was nothing to me, and I knew that soon death would seem like a gift. I'd always known I would have to return to the Unsea, but as I looked back, I realized that some part of me had anticipated it.
- Leigh Bardugo
...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.
- Julian Barnes
A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera)
There's no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's a gift. (Artemis)
Nothing is ever freely given. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.
- Cecilia Bartoli
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.
- Charles Baudelaire
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
- Charles M Schulz
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
- Blaise Pascal
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
- Albert Camus
Never look a gift lion in the mouth.
- Lemony Snicket
Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.
- L M Montgomery
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)
- John Steinbeck
There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you're that important.
- Aimee Bender
We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.
- David Letterman
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
- Ambrose Bierce
Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.
- Chris Bohjalian
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello
- Tamora Pierce
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.
- Ray Bradbury
Oh bats, oh bats, oh snacks with wings
Come and hear how Taggle sings!
Oh squirm, oh squeak, my wriggly bats
You'll make a gift for lady cats!
- Erin Bow
I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
- Billy Boyd
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
- Carl Sandburg
The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.
- Johannes Brahms
Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is another victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frusturated!"
There was a brief pause.
"In the end they shall kill us. But first they shall fear us!
- Brandon Sanderson
We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don't that we can consciously put the magic in; it doesn't work that way. When the magic comes, it's a gift.
- Madeleine L Engle
In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.
- Sydney Brenner
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.
- Sarah Brightman
I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that's kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I'm grateful for it.
- Po Bronson
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
- Anita Brookner
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
- Louise Brooks
I wish the rose was as beautiful as the woman who gives it as a gift...but to say so would be to lie. But I will accept the lesser if it pleases the greater of the two...and I say, THANK YOU
- Tonny K Brown
Love is always bestowed as a gift!
freely, willingly, and without expectation....
We don't love to be loved, we love to love
- Nicholas Sparks
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Women hate a debt as men a gift.
- Robert Browning
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.
- Betty Buckley
I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn."
"Yeah, it's a gift.
- Rick Riordan
Odd to you, but to me, that's my death day. Dead to ever living a normal life again. When I saw you sitting on the pier, I kind of thought of it as a gift...a beautiful...hopeful gift.
- Laura Burks
We'd been given a gift and our job now was to unwrap it...and see what's inside.
- Todd Burpo
all abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another. i could not have done what i have done as a writer had i been a gifted mathematician or physicist.
honesty wrung out of him by pain, he cried out with a loud voice.
- William S Burroughs
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
- Leo Buscaglia
Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people.
Jack: I see you.
Rose: And?
Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.
- James Cameron
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
- Truman Capote
Buut how to fight with singers, how to win a gift that could only be given freely- those were questions whose answers could not be found.
- Orson Scott Card
Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.
- Richard Carlson
Care for her. He was unworthy of such a gift. Unworthy of her blind trust and her sparkling, slightly crooked smiles, let alone her heart. But he wanted her, selfish fool he was and had always been. Care for her? Ah, God, she consumed him.
- V S Carnes
It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift.
- David Carradine
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.
- Joyce Cary
I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.
- Joyce Cary
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
If only there were a game whose winning required a gift for the identification of missed opportunities and of things lost and irrecoverable, a knack for the belated recognition of truths, for the exploitation of chances in imagination after it's too late!
- Michael Chabon
But the boy had a gift. And it was in the nature of a gift that it be endlessly given.
- Michael Chabon
Then you must be willing to fight," Mircea responded. "Life is not a gift, Raphael; it's a challenge. Rise to it!
- Karen Chance
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
- Bill Cosby
All my life, I'd been on the receiving end of my mother's endless tenderness and vigilant care. Being allowed to care for her during her recovery was a gift the most rewarding experience in my life.
- Kristin Chenoweth
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept, not a spiritual practice. Hope, I began to realize, was not a state of life. It was at best a gift of life.
- Joan D Chittister
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
- Septima Clark
Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.
- John Clayton
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
- Chris Cleave
That whole week, we started to divide things into those two categories: anything or something. A piece of jewelry bougth at a department store: anything. A piece of jewelry made by hand: something. A dollar: anything. A sand dollar: something. A gift certificate: anything. An IOU for two hours of starwatching: something. A drunk kiss at a party: anything. A sober kiss alone in a park: something.
- David Levithan
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Never looking back, or too far in front of me. The present is a gift, and I just wanna to be.
- Common
I imagine giving someone such a gift and then having it returned. Parents are always giving things that are not taken.
- Ally Condie
Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.
- Donna Jo Napoli
My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
- Barbara Corcoran
Erase from your vocabulary the word "someday." Do not save things for "special occasions." Take into account the fact that every day is special. Every day is a gift that we must appreciate and be thankful for. Wear your attractive clothes, wear your nice perfume, use your fine silverware and dishes, and drink from your expensive crystal glasses ... just because. Live every day to the fullest and savor every minute of it.
- Rodolfo Costa
Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.
- Michael Crichton
learning 's a gift, even when "pain" ,s your teacher!
- Michael Jordan
They said every year was a gift, not a guarantee, and ought to be celebrated accordingly.
- Sarah Cross
(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)
- E E Cummings
she is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.
- Michael Cunningham
I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.
- Betty Cuthbert
Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.
- Josee D Amore
My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.
- Puff Daddy
He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.
- Kurt Vonnegut
It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.
- Miles Davis
I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.
- John Denver
He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.
- Lauren Destefano
The gift of the Holy Ghost is a gift of power. The Holy Ghost inspires and heals, guides and warns, enhances our natural capacities, inspires charity and humility, makes us smarter than we are, strengthens us during trials, testifies of the Father and the Son, and shows us "all things" that we should do. He helps us do more and become more than we could ever do or become on our own.
- Sheri L Dew
Yauch was a gifted MC.
- Michael Diamond
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
- Kate Dicamillo
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
- Charles Dickens
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
- Franz Kafka
It was wrong and impossible and illicit and yet each minute with the boy was a gift, a scene from a story he could not leave.
- Anthony Doerr
Think of every single thing that we 'have to' do to get through a day as something that we 'get to' do... before our turn is over.
Everything is a gift.
- Mike Dooley
Why do children love to hide and seek? Ask any person who has a passion to explore and discover and create. The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life.
- W Paul Young
Perhaps you'll apprentice to a healer when you're older," Grete suggested. "I'd say you have the gift for it."
Hen reddened, then seemed suddenly fascinated with a speck on her shoe. "Be nice to have a gift for something," she said after a moment. "But they don't let girls apprentice, now, do they?"
Grete harrumphed. "A bunch of fools, the lot who came up with that system. You lose half the world's brainpower that way.
- Frances O Roark Dowell
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
- Horace
Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.
- Carol Ann Duffy
Life is a gift...
Life is a test...
Life is temporary assignment...
- Rick Warren
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
- Ursula K Le Guin
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
- Wayne Dyer
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
- Freeman Dyson
Have people been staring at you?'
He frowns. 'I don't know. I guess so. I forgot it was there. Can you really notice it?'
'Well yeah, but ... I think it's great.' To me, Danny rocking up to surf with graffiti all over his face is magic. I want to tell him that I think he's precious, that the fact he talks to me is a gift. But of course you can't say things like that to people
- Kirsty Eagar
It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.
- Gregg Easterbrook
I don't think I pity her. She doesn't strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don't know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don't insist upon that. It's her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me.
- Henry James
A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.
- Kim Edwards
Forgiveness is a funny thing. We act like it has to be earned, as if there are a certain number of hoops someone can jump through to make us forget that they hurt us. But forgiveness can't be earned! It can only be given freely, as a gift!
- Louisa Edwards
High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.
- Zac Efron
When someone works for less pay than she can live on -- when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently -- than she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made of a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.
- George Orwell
The future is not a gift. It is an achievement.
- Robert Kennedy
You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.
- Michelle Moran
I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said.
"DON'T SOUND SO ASHAMED," he said. "READING IS A GIFT."
"I learned it from you," I told him.
"IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT- IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT. IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.
- John Irving
This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God's way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.
- Elisabeth Elliot
I consider everything I compose a gift.
- Keith Emerson
Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.
- Garrison Keillor
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
- Garrison Keillor
She found only the healer in him. All else was pushed aside. There was so much selflessness, so much purity of soul, Shea could only marvel. She followed his lead without reservation. He was the epitome of what she had always striven to be. A true healer, with a gift so rare and precious, she felt humbled in his presence. Later she could remember that Gregori was a powerful ancient, that he could make anyone believe and see anything he wanted.
- Christine Feehan
That be the jealousy talking," Gator said, in no way perturbed. "I can't help the way the women love me. I was born with the gift."
The men hooted and made rude noises. "You were born with a gift of bullshitting." Sam pointed out, "but that's about it." He looked at Dahlia. "Pardon me, ma'am, but its the truth."
"I rather thought it was," she agreed.
- Christine Feehan
My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.
- Allyson Felix
I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.
- Allyson Felix
Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah.
- Craig Ferguson
Canis latrans," Wolfenson finally remarked.
Fincher furrowed his brow. "Latin for... barking dog?"
"Yes, the coyote. They have a gift of making the howls of a few sound like the howls of the many." He looked toward the roadblock of brick and mortar. "I believe that's why the Landlord chose them as his messengers.
- Richard Finney
She turned to Vetch and he caught her hands as they reached out for him. "I wanted power, I always wanted it, but it's stronger than I am! I can't control the Unworld, Vetch, or the real world either. I can't make it do what I want! The forest is too strong."
Vetch crouched, his narrow face close to hers. "You will, Chloe. I promise you." He glanced at Mac. "Ask him. God gives no one a gift he cannot master. Right, Priest?
- Catherine Fisher
I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.
- Dan Fogelberg
And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.
- Gayle Forman
Such a gift might be easily taken back again.
- Veronica Franco
Well, I get under people's skins. It's a gift I have, what can I say?
- James Patterson
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
- Thomas Fuller
That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.
- Charles Frazier
Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.
- Charles Frazier
I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.
- Ace Frehley
There is no such things as God's word on earth. Or if there is it is not to be found in books.
-Then where is it to be found?-
In love. In the laughter of children. In a gift given. In a life saved. In the quiet of morning. In the dead of night. In the sound of the ocean, or the sound of a car. It can be found in anything, anywhere. It is the fabric of our lives, our feelings, the people we live with, things we know to be real.
- James Frey
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]
- Northrop Frye
There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.
- Diana Gabaldon
I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.
- Diana Gabaldon
I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
- Mavis Gallant
I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.
- James Galway
Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.
- Cristina Garcia
I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.
- Ana Gasteyer
...But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet..
- Anna Gavalda
Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.
- Ricky Gervais
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
- A Bartlett Giamatti
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )
- Nikki Giovanni
...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.
- Seth Godin
You're a gift, one I'll always treasure. You're a dream I never want to wake up from. You open my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me. Be safe. Be smart. Stay you.
- Ellen Hopkins
But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.
- Ellen Hopkins
You are a gift to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you have to do is find it. Do not give up on yourself, or the truths you have realized. Do not give in to those who could crush your dreams like nutshells. And never turn away from forever love.
- Ellen Hopkins
Freedom is such a gift.
- Ryan Gosling
He tugged my zipper down like he was unveiling a gift, spreading my pants open. "Yeah. There it is. You have a nice fat dick. I would have never guessed it."
"I'm Italian," I said inanely.
- L B Gregg
What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?
If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assistance is the universe offering you as support? I was given an amazing mentor, a poet, Eleanor Drewry Dolan, who taught me the importance of every word. To my utter amazement, there were times she found it necessary to consult three dictionaries to evaluate one word.
- Kathleen Grissom
One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.
- Laurell K Hamilton
Time is a gift. Something to be treasured and never taken for granted.
- Lauren Hammond
I wore it, this careless thing you don't even remember giving to me from your bag. It wasn't a gift, this thing I'm returning. It was barely a gesture, almost forgotten already, this thing I wore like it was dear to me. And it was. No wonder we broke up.
- Daniel Handler
It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.
- Daniel Handler
Boy to his dying grampa: I am a century wide. I think that I have my literal age but am surrounded in a radius of years. I think that these years of days, this near century of years, is a gift from you.
- P Harding
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