We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.
Jean Toomer
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DARRYL PINCKNEY Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ...
BECKY ALBERTALLI We make them ourselves to the customer's liking with Swiss movement. They make great gifts.
DAVID PECK We receive both gifts and financial support from a variety of major contributors. With the money we ...
CAPT. THURSTON MCCLAIN Empowerment comes from self-realization and recognition of our internal gifts, which we already have...
BRYANT MCGILL If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosyste...
WENDELL BERRY We are pleased that the Supreme Court ruled in our favor. The fact that the court was unanimous conf...
MERRILL LYNCH We are what we are.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become.
PEGGY TONEY HORTON An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mist...
VERONICA ROSSI We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make t...
GARY ZUKAV It's not that the people are bad but it's the situation which ruins the thoughts of the people. The ...
DEBOLINA BHAWAL The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gif...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it ask...
JOHN DRYDEN There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it ask...
JOHN DRYDEN In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
GENE WOLFE Mistakes and slips are a necessary evil part of our daily living. We learn through them all the time...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.
BARBARA EHRENREICH We have people expecting gifts from people who don't know their tastes - and don't have a comfortabl...
ERIK GORDON How everything comes??
I really don't know I can say that it comes from nowhere :D :d.
DEYTH BANGER We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
SAMUEL ADAMS When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-...
PARKER J. PALMER Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts
JEAN VANIER Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.
JEAN VANIER "Since we don't always get we want, the growth is in making what we get, what we want." - Simcha Glu...
SIMCHA GLUCK We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze,
we long for it jealously.
UNKNOWN Fear grows from what we don't know, faith comes from what we do.
UNKNOWN Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resour...
JULIAN SIMON We should make a big jump from now until we start.
DUSTIN FRY What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is w...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is w...
T.S. ELIOT We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN For little children everywhere
A joyous season still we make;
We bring our precious gifts to t...
PHOEBE CARY You said that you are ill... but from from what?
DEYTH BANGER Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and wha...
MARISSA MEYER Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with ...
LAO TZU I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
"Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur...
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GARY F EVANS... When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
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SATHESH KUMAR M The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
ROLLO MAY We really have to start there. God loved us. That is where our dignity comes from.
DEIRDRE MCQUADE We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Our pressure forced them to make some mistakes. We were able to jump to a 10-0 start with our pressu...
DEAN RAHAS Darkness always causes fear and chaos inside us. We are always scared of losing ourselves somewhere ...
AKSHAY VASU We start early every day, and we make everything from scratch. We don't use anything processed.
SONNIE BENTLEY When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't com...
VINCE CLARKE It comes from what we do. It's how we came together.
ADAM BRETZ We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
MARGE PIERCY Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we car...
SHERYL SANDBERG We scored when we had our chances and that's what we needed. What goes around, comes around. We out-...
DON ROBERTSON We have given the guys some time off and will only start working with them from November 7.
DICK MUIR We do full face painting and balloon sculpturing. I think we're even going to start doing baby showe...
DONNA HUDSON The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.
JOHN PIPER If our gifts are not surrendered to God, we tend to beat people over the head with them.
UNKNOWN There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important...
MARGUERITE MOREAU We set the tone from the start of the game that we were going to play hard and make it tough on them...
CLIFFORD ROBINSON We have not studied all of them. Many of them may be sound, while there may be others that merit ove...
PAUL LARRABEE Hence, when we ask anything of God and He begins to hear us, He so often goes counter to our petitio...
MARTIN LUTHER Fear comes from attachments; we only fear what we are afraid to lose!
JOHNNY WALKER The Newlywed package is where you start to see different offers based on what that customer came in ...
MARCI RAIBLE We played well from the start of the first game. We were eager to play and we played with passion fr...
LLOYD HULIT The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start fro...
PARACELSUS The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start fro...
PHILIPUS AUREOLUS PARACELSUS We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
NOLAN BUSHNELL A house takes on the character of its inhabitants; a homeowner takes on the characteristics of the h...
CLIFFORD COHEN We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know the...
DENNIS MORGIGNO Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK We worked together to develop what we believe is a thoughtful proposal that has great merit. We look...
WILLIAM WINKENWERDER The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the cleare we should see through it. ...
JEAN PAUL We just have them to have them. We don't make any money from them.
MARIA NEOPOLITAN When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need s...
MICHELLE OBAMA Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.
HARLEY KING Appearance is just an asphyxiation of your mind...
Look past the youth, accept the future that has b...
CAMERON NEAL ARNOLD We are endowed with different kinds of gifts for different kinds of services.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
EURIPIDES We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strength...
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rich person who is unhappy because the p...
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WYCLEF JEAN Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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JEAN ROSTAND The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition ...
JEAN PAUL When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a stra...
JEAN GENET To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide...
JEAN ROSTAND Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
JEAN PAUL The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD