Presents Quotes

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown

Friendship, Small, Weather

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandler

Down, Door, Beat

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther

Music, God, Art

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
Gabriel Byrne

Life, Love, Great

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
Demetri Martin

Birthday, Christmas, Happy

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
Lewis Carroll

Birthday, Days, Three

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
Victor Hugo

Beautiful, Rest, Sublime

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
Victoria Beckham

Heart, Child, Drawing

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph Addison

Great, Down, Genius

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas Aquinas

Faith, Truth, Learning

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
Edgar Cayce

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
E. O. Wilson

Book, Earth, Possible

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson

Children, Presence

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
Doug Coupland

Time, Free, Scary

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.
Ashley Tisdale

Love, Christmas, Season

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman

Time, Human, Meet

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
Henry Miller

Fear, Nothing, Him

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.
Taylor Swift

Great, Give, Awesome

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
Celine Dion

Sometimes, Often, Spend

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
David Herbert Lawrence

Again, Emotions, Books

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
Theodor Adorno

Past, Destroyed, Recent

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
Ice Cube

Love, Great, Smart

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.
Adele

Birthday, Famous, Living

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
Brian Eno

Situation, Beyond, Reach

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
Bob Woodward

Quality, Drama, Journalism

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Him, Turn, Looks

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
Louis D. Brandeis

Law, Enough, Problems

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
Robert Collier

May, Matter, Fast

I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time.
Ellie Goulding

Time, Why, Getting

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
Muhammad Iqbal

Time, Nothing, Universe

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