Gift Quotes
3896 quotes by 2480 authors
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
— Erma Bombeck
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
— Bono
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At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and…
— Anthony Bourdain
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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…
— Christina Aguilera
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How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?
— James Bovard
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For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother…
— Wernher von Braun
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
— Louise Brooks
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
— James Broughton
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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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…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous…
— Billie Burke
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Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
— Leo Buscaglia
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the…
— Abdallah II
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There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the…
— Tony Campolo
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Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.
— James Cameron
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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift…
— Albert Camus
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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
— Truman Capote
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
— Alexis Carrel
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Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I…
— Graydon Carter
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