Best Bestowed Quotes
226 Bestowed quotes by 189 unique authors
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But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which…
— John Calvin
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O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world…
— Rabia Basri
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If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government.…
— Unknown Author
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I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you...I think that it's time to take…
— Margaret Cho
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If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces... never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. That's…
— Bernadette Soubirous
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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled their disobedience. On…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their…
— Daniel Gillies
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Nurturing requires organization, patience, love, and work. Helping growth occur through nurturing is truly a powerful and influential role bestowed on women
— Julie B. Beck
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Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
— Samuel Johnson
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Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them,…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Authentic success is being so grateful for the many blessings bestowed on you and yours that you can share your portion with others.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the…
— Plato
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I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the…
— Mo Brooks
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This Sabbath day has been designated as a day of thanksgiving, a day of gratitude-even a day of prayer. We pause, we ponder, we reflect…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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You may have the administration of angels, you may see many miracles; . . . but I claim that the gift of the Holy Ghost…
— Wilford Woodruff
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I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense…
— Lynn Abbey
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Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
— Margaret Drabble
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I'd always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed.…
— Dan Millman
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Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.
— Laozi
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Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine…
— Unknown Author
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We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known…
— Daniel Tammet
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