Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

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.