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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. -- Meryl Streep
I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak. -- George Best
I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift. -- Twyla Tharp
I think it is a great gift to make people laugh, and it shouldn't be underestimated. -- Beeban Kidron
I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that. -- John Legend
If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift. -- Christian Slater
I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child. -- Ann Brashares
I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate. -- Edmund Hillary
Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that. -- Dave Matthews
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. -- Basil Hume
I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films. -- Jessica Chastain
Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela. -- Mo Ibrahim
I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end. -- Michael Reagan
Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart. -- Lady Jane Grey
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. -- Suzan-Lori Parks
One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself. -- Leonard Mlodinow
I worked at Sears in the Woodfield Mall as a gift wrapper. I'm actually a great gift wrapper, and the customers were so nice to me. I was only 16, and eventually Sears put me in customer service because I was so friendly. -- Sherri Shepherd
Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting. -- Stephen Gaghan
I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us. -- Peter Capaldi
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish. -- Rebecca Solnit
I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know. -- Teena Marie
When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift. -- Iggy Pop
We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time. -- Trina
To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me. -- Leslie Marmon Silko
I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man. -- Jake Owen
Faith is a great gift to have. -- Bern Will Brown
There is no gift more great than love. -- James Branch Cabell
Every perfect gift comes from the great God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift. -- George Herbert
A great body is a gift you give yourself -- Nelly
A great gift is an answer waiting for a question. -- Kevin Kling
Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment. -- Natalie Goldberg
A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts. -- Gautama Buddha
Doing great things for others is an awesome gift to give yourself. -- Robin Sharma
The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift. -- Edward Eggleston
I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic. -- Vince McMahon
Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep. -- William Ernest Henley
Grace gives without the receiver realizing how great the gift really is. -- Rebecca Pippert
Humor is such a great gift - why leave it to chance? -- Joel Goodman
psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life. -- Jean Baker Miller
The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. -- Thomas Morell
Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection. -- John Wolcot
I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm. -- Milton Berle
For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom. -- Norman Lock
Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift. -- Robin Williams
The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending. -- Jim Rohn
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. -- John Ruskin
However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell. -- Mary MacLane
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts. -- Randall Wallace
If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift. -- Charlie Munger
You don't have to have a great gift for God to use it in a great way. -- Joel Osteen
Gratitude is a prayer of an appreciating heart for the great gift of life and its endless treasures. -- Debasish Mridha
Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. -- Theocritus
You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift. -- P. G. Wodehouse
And if I have the gift of prophesy, all-wisdom and great faith but without love, I am nothing. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
...my awakening life.I am awake in the present.The present is today.Today is a great gift. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. -- Suzanne Collins
...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there. -- Aimee Bender
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift. -- Paul Valery
Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend. -- Theocritus
The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain. -- Daniel Mazia
There is a great difference between a gift given freely, and one that's meant to tie you to a man. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift. -- Doris McCarthy
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection. -- Pindar
When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater. -- Morgan Freeman
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults. -- Henri Nouwen
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection -- Pindar
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. -- Abraham Lincoln
It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living. -- Fernando Pessoa
The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them? -- Edward Abbey
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. -- Septima Poinsette Clark
Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable. -- Anne Lamott
I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten. -- Brian Setzer
Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. -- John Ruskin
it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available. -- Elizabeth Janeway
In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death ... the gift of righteousness and eternal life. -- Martin Luther
I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer. -- Frank Ocean
'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God. -- Spark Matsunaga
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life. -- Louise Erdrich
We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life. -- Bryant McGill
We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life. -- Bryant McGill
It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it. -- Wilferd Peterson
The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life. -- Corliss Lamont
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. -- Saint Augustine
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own. -- Alan Cohen
The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow. -- George Eliot
Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence. -- John Lubbock
If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves. -- Cindy Crawford
It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing. -- William J. Clinton
Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations. -- Albert Speer
When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved. -- Maria Edgeworth
Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. -- David A. Bednar
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a threat. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. -- Baltasar Gracian
But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach". -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small. -- Alphonsus Liguori
My expertise lies in what I've devoted my life to. I wouldn't pretend to be a great gift to any other animal. My interest has always been in the horses. -- Buck Brannaman
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other. -- Nora Roberts
I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift. -- Zachary Cole Smith
Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were. -- Richard Flanagan

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