Gifts make slaves.

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.

Gifts make slaves.

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate we experience a delicious falling sensation we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

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.

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

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.

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

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

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

Gifts make slaves.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

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.

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.

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

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.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

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

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

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.