Top 1200 Greatest Gifts Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

I cant believe anybody would celebrate a holiday where a jolly prowler breaks into your house and leaves gifts.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.

Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

Michael Jordan is probably the greatest scorer to ever play in the game. But I may go as far to say Lebron James may be the the greatest player to ever play the game.

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

Have you ever known anyone who bought a fruitcake for himself? Of course not. They are purchased as Christmas gifts, mostly for people you don't particularly like.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort.

The election of Obama will say as much about the American people as it does about Obama himself - that our Declaration of Independence means what it says in its opening lines, that being the world's greatest nation means that we offer the world's greatest opportunities.

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!

We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life.

I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.

Don’t start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)

There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.

There are so many instances where kids who have talent and intellect have to navigate the world of low expectations and resources. We have to nurture those gifts more.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.

Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I've been labeled - short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy - turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn't become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.

Difficult times are the greatest opportunities in disguise. When we face difficult times we have to put in determined work to get ourselves into joy. Difficult times are your greatest opportunity to practice yourself into joy!

Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.

What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?

Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas.

My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.

Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other.

Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.

All of us are born with certain gifts, and the secret to success is figuring out what your gift is and using it in a way that benefits others.

To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.

Love is something that is genuine, delicate and involves care, passion and attention, and is entirely different to gifts, balls, jewels and circumstance.

Triple H is a former bodybuilder. He's all about bodies. He thought that Hulk Hogan was the greatest wrestler in the world. They think Ultimate Warrior was the greatest wrestler in the world because that's what they're attracted to, but he's not really a wrestling fan like I grew up. I was a wrestling fan.

Valentine's Day gifts like teddy bears, chocolate and perfume are SO lame. How about be thoughtful and original?

Be a beneficial presence on the planet. Give your Gifts. Boldly go where no woman or no man has ever gone before.

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star.

Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks.

There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work. They knew how to punch through music that would cure and make people feel good.