#gifts

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#likely #more #more and more #received #resentment

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#came #clever #english #english language #game

Gifts make slaves. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#make #slaves

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted. ↗

— Janet Erskine Stuart

#come #gifts #sorts #spiritual #through

This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more. ↗

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#contribute #election #everyone #gifts #hand

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. ↗

— Quintilian

#natural #rules #technical #useless #without

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#gifts #mediocrity #recognition #sherlock-holmes #talent

Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher. ↗

— Nancy Holmes

#dangerous #gifts #heavenly #poetry-in-disguise #rebel

When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn't fit me. ↗

— William P. Smith

#coveting #envy #gifts #theology #love