Gifted Quotes - Page 3

• You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Inspirational, Encouraging, New Beginnings

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• There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.

  Gene Robinson

  Gay, Church, Bishops

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• If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

  Alexander Smith

  Death, Men, Race

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.58

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• I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Hockey

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• Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

  Pope John Paul II

  Feet, Rome, Land

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• You have been gifted with mental faculties to improve any circumstance around you.

  Bob Proctor

  Faculty, Circumstances, Has Beens

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• The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

  Andre Gide

  Nature, Literature, Trembling

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• 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

  Catholic, Matter, Dogma

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• He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wisdom, Self, Rich

  "Scoop". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1938.

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• The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character, Writing, Mind

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

  Allen Ginsberg

  People, Want, Bows

  Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.380, University of Michigan Press

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• All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Life, People, Income

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.392, Delphi Classics

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• I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Way, Filmmaker

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• I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

  Candice Bergen

  Commitment, Boys, Thinking

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• It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

  John George Nicolay

  Wisdom, Party, Political

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.81, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

  Norman Spinrad

  Hopeless

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• For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

  Sarah Palin

  Inspire, Deeds, Keep Moving Forward

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  Adam Pascal

  Actors, Feels, Good Actors

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• I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Children, Dad

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• I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  People, Fit, Rich

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

  W. H. Auden

  Moving, Mean, Men

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• I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

  Joel Osteen

  Everyday, Trying, Principles

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• I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

  Tim Robbins

  Thinking, Credit, Filmmaker

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• Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

  Gloria Swanson

  Beautiful, Tennessee, Common

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• I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.

  Oliver Kahn

  Team, Winning, Player

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