Quotes of: Greatest-gift Keyword

With battle-weary arms, Sheridan slugged his way across the luminous waves sending light-filled droplets splashing into the air like Fourth of July sparklers. Stumbling onto the lake’s rocky banks, he clawed desperately at the animal skin suit, yan...

Love

Most Romans believed that their system of government was the finest political invention of the human mind. Change was inconceivable. Indeed, the constitution's various parts were so mutually interdependent that reform within the rules was next to imp...

Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician

You really think love needs to have a future?” “Absolutely.” “Good,” Lily said. “So do I.” “Good,” I echoed, leaning in. “So do you.” “Don’t repeat what I say,” she told me, swatting at my arm. “Don’t repeat what I say...

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you're the greatest woman on earth. I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do, and how you are with Spencer, "Spence," and in every sin...

As Good as It Gets

Imagine your kid is running into the street and you have to sprint after her in bare feet," Eric told me when I picked up my training with him after my time with Ken. "You'll automatically lock into perfect form--you'll be up on your forefeet, with y...

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known. But the American approach -- . Rotten at its core. It was too artificial and grabby, Vigil believed, too much about getting stuff and getting it now: medals, Nike deals, a cute butt. It w...

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Again, it is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than t...

The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

Melvin Udall: I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you're the greatest woman on earth. I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do, and how you are with Spencer, "Spence," an...

As Good as It Gets

[first lines] Lord Byron: Prologue [looking out the window at a thunderstorm] Lord Byron: How beautifully dramatic! The cruelest savage exhibition of nature at her worst without. [turns to face Mary and Percy Shelley, both seated] Lord Byron: And we ...

Bride of Frankenstein

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Community And Growth

Love is not some tool for manipulation. Love is a gift - love is from God. Love means everything.

A Constant Heart

But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas.

Chosen

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.

Crown of Midnight

Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay.

Doing Business with Japanese Men: A Woman's Handbook

He gave me a gift, a surprise. It was my first present in this place so far from home.

Dispatches from the Republic of Otherness

I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

Divergent

The body is not a task to be completed but a gift we receive from God himself.

Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter To Our Faith

Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves.

Earth Citizen: Recovering Our Humanity

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

Enduring Love

They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes.

The Earthsea Trilogy