Gifted Quotes

413 Gifted quotes by 361 unique authors

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. — Michael Cunningham
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and… — Thomas Hardy
Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality.… — Camille Paglia
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the… — Isaiah Berlin
I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether… — Henry James
You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether… — Jane Roberts
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth… — Max Lucado
It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to… — Max Weber
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they… — Bryce Courtenay
I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and… — Benjamin Carson
I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound… — Charlotte Bronte
Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter,… — Ellen Hopkins
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not… — Richard Dawkins
Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe… — Wallace Stegner
It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full. — Wilbur Smith
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence… — Brenda Ueland
Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Young, gifted, and destitute... — Tennessee Williams
I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely. — Virginia Woolf
Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the… — Thornton Wilder
We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly… — Henry Beston
i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him… — Ellen Hopkins
The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense… — Henry Beston

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