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

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

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts.

It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.

We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on.

You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

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.