If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
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.
Every day is a gift from God. There's no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.
I have a special ability to spot TV shows that don't go past two seasons; that's my gift.
The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.
I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.
First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.
I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.
Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.
God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
In high school, I had a gold 1992 Ford Explorer. It was a gift. I used to have a terrible habit of locking the keys in the car when I used leave the car running to help it start on a cold morning. I think the local locksmith became used to me calling him.
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
I've got two girls, and they both make beautiful drawings. One of them really has a gift for the way that she colors around certain lines.
I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.
If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.
You can think you're living in the moment and you're thankful, but when somebody comes face to face with you and says, 'I just lost my child,' or 'I have months to live, and thank you...' I'm of course sad for them, but I'm thankful that I gave them a gift and they're giving me a gift.
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar disorder. And I'm not saying that every, you know, I'm not accusing every memoirist of being bipolar. But I think in a way it's kind of a gift.
