Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.
The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.
We like the gift when we the giver prize.
One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
The greatest gift you can give someone is your personal development.
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
Starting in 98 when I was researching Traffic, I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.
If each day is a gift, I'd like to know where to return Mondays!
The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.
Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.
The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
Your gift to God is honesty. God's gift to you is truth.
Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be meant to receive greater.
The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
We had been so close to missing each other, he and I. He had turned out to be the greatest gift of all.
Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.
