#gift

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#gifts #must #point #receiver #shock

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#being #commitment #down #financial #gifted

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#appear #appears #art #color #eloquence

If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#experiences #gave #gifts #god #had

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin? ↗

— Betty Buckley

#bridge #build #claim #common #common ground

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#back #box #boxes #business #cardboard

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 himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite. ↗

— James Broughton

#create #desire #destroy #even #fearing

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 it. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#face #gauntlet #gift #god #our

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#best #gifts #god #man #put