What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others. – Ezra Taft Benson
I’m really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people. – David Suchet
I get asked, ‘What do you miss most about being a pastor?’ I think it’s the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there’s an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable. – Eugene H. Peterson
I’ve certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don’t have a gift for prophecy. – Charles McCarry
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I’d much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books. – Erik Larson
We can see that the sacramental presence of the Lord in the Eucharist is an essential gift for us and give us also the possibility to love the others and to work for the others. – Pope Benedict XVI
The gift of song is just like… I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal. – Charles King
I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It’s a craft. It’s like being a ballerina or a violinist. – Ellen Barkin
To act for a living is a gift, and understanding you’re a lucky bloke keeps your feet on the ground. – Michael Socha
Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It’s an economic force, it’s a technical force. It’s a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity. – Chris Anderson
The sexiest thing my girlfriend has ever done for me is when she planned three full days of events, meals, and surprises for my birthday. It was like one continuous gift. – Chris Wood
I would hope it’s better, but I’m actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I’ve been given. – David Coverdale
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. – Plautus
Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands ahead of our neighbours in the path of typhoons from the Pacific. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
When you’re in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back. – Paul Stanley
A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you’re one of the saps paying for the cargo. – David Harsanyi