Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Walter Benjamin

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.
Johannes Tauler

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.
Elle Macpherson

Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.
Roy Ayers

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
Sherwood Boehlert

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
Jack Kroll

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
Gian Carlo Menotti

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
Adam Clarke

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.
Peabo Bryson

I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun.
James Lafferty

I always try to give my songs as gifts.
Dan Fogelberg

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Thornton Wilder

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

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
Don Johnson

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
Dean Koontz

I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.
Princess Diana

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
Virgil