Danilov: I've been such a fool, Vassili. Man will always be a man. There is no new man. We tried so hard to create a society that was equal, where there'd be nothing to envy your neighbour. But there's always something to envy. A smile, a friendship,...
Harold: Maude? Maude: Yeah? Harold: [pulls the stamped coin from the arcade out of his pocket] Here. Maude: A gift! [reads the engraving] Maude: "Harold loves Maude."... and Maude loves Harold. This is the nicest gift I've received in years. [she thr...
Harry Potter: It was Malfoy. Professor Minerva McGonagall: That is a very serious accusation, Potter. Severus Snape: Indeed. Your evidence? Harry Potter: I just know. Severus Snape: You just... know? Once again, you astonish me with your gifts Potter...
...But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a ...
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
I'm the hardest person to buy a gift for.
... the nearness of the wound to the gift,
Beauty is the lover's gift.
My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky.
Laughter is a gift for lovers.
Your imagination is a gift, unwrap it.
Imagination is God's gift to the dreamers.
I can’t hear God’s voice for my kids, but I can watch and listen and pray and adjust and try not to screw up whatever He has planned for their lives. And although I can’t make them listen to God, or even want to, I can plant enough seeds to swi...
From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart; a society in which words are holy, and the challen...
If the gods bring to you a strange and frightening creature, accept the gift as if it were one you had chosen. Say the accustomed prayers, oil the hooves well, caress the small ears with praise. Have the new halter of woven silver embedded with jewel...
Secrets. Funny how, when you're about to be given something precious, something you've wanted for a long time, you suddenly feel nervous over taking it. Everyone wants more than anything to be allowed into someone else's most secret self. Everyone wa...
I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.
I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.
