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Letter "G" » Gifts
«Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.»
«Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.»
Author: Freeman Dyson
(Physicist)
| About:
Gifts,
God,
Technology
| Keywords:
Arts and, Arts and Sciences, civilizations, sciences
«Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it»
«Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Gifts
| Keywords:
engage, knack, substantial, The Knack
«Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Gifts,
Talent
| Keywords:
perceiving, reveal, secretly
«Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Gifts,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
offered, perceived, such that
«Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift.»
«Reason is God's crowning gift to man.»
«Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.»
«She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Gifts,
Quotations,
Wit
| Keywords:
quotation, serviceable
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