Bestows Quotes
67 quotes by 60 authors
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am…
— Harold Brodkey
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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
— John Bunyan
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Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination.…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty,…
— John Updike
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If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows suffering. By miracles…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
— Thomas Hobbes
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Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of…
— Seneca the Younger
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You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
— Pierre Charron
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But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall…
— David Hume
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...every day we should stand in awe of Him, as He is with us, and do what is pleasing before Him. If we are unable…
— Gregory Palamas
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If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If we wholeheartedly beg…
— Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
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Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon…
— George W. Bush
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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
— Hannah Arendt
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A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows…
— Ludwig von Mises
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It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect…
— James Madison
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Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like…
— Rumi
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One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of…
— Emile Durkheim
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If the blonds and blue-eyed people die out, the human race will become increasingly dense ... Blond hair actually bestows intelligence. In the case of…
— Rudolf Steiner
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The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands…
— J.R. Miller
Who Wrote These Bestows Quotes
60 authors contributed a total of 67 Bestows Quotes, led by these top contributors: