Lends Quotes

131 quotes by 120 authors

Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression. — Reuben Fine
My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to… — Gail Sheehy
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting. — Sheryl Crow
The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are… — Edmund Wilson
My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy. — Cat Cora
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether… — Eugene Ionesco
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! — Alexander Pope
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with… — Emile M. Cioran
Love, indeed, lends a precious seeing to the eye, and hearing to the ear: all sights and sounds are glorified by the light of its… — Arthur Frederick Saunders
Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung. — Enya
Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation. — Charles P. Kindleberger
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but… — Gerrit Smith
I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination. — Yoshida Kenko
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. — Robertson Davies
We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral… — Susan Jacoby
French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use… — Peter Medawar
One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the… — Ron Franscell
Red stimulates and excites your nerves, pulse rate and blood circulation, and lends energy to your entire system. When you are fatigued, lethargic or sluggish… — Tae Yun Kim

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