Top 27 Quotes About Accepting Gifts
#1. Do not accept gifts; [because] that is bribery.
Umar
#2. We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to college
regardless of income.
Bernie Sanders
#3. Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.
Graeme Simsion
#5. No." I tilted her chin up. "I expect you to live a damn good life. I expect you to listen to me when I tell you there has never been anyone but you. No one. Only you, always you, forever you. And I'm sorry, but I won't take back what I did." - Nixon
Rachel Van Dyken
#7. By accepting or even welcoming your challenges, you create opportunities for their gifts to be revealed.
Mike Dooley
#8. 4By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 5By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not
Anonymous
#9. When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
Jay Maisel
#10. If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
Bodhidharma
#11. No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. Accepting all that is given to me and all that is taken away. Recognizing that even loss and pain are gifts.
Marian Keyes
#14. Real humility is not about denying the gifts you are offered; it is accepting them.
Alan Cohen
#15. Maleela stalked up to him and slapped him hard across the right cheek. Her eyes fumed with anger. "You idiot! Do you have any idea what would have happened if they had caught
Christian Warren Freed
#16. Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.
Randy Pausch
#17. Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.
John Steinbeck
#18. A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government in earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#19. How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
Alain De Botton
#20. I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.
Dave Chappelle
#21. Nihilism has no point. There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man
Victor Hugo
#22. Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.
Horace
#23. When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.
Minor White
#24. Nature does not abandon us. Rather, it helps us in accepting our loss, grief and pain. It stays with us, even cries with us. It gifts us openings, may be more than once, to heal, transcend and re-emerge. (Page xii)
Neena Verma
#25. Extraordinary, how single lives just fold into the whole mess, over and over again, all caught up in the greater swirl. Spinning round and round, and ever downward, it seems. Ever downward. Fools, all of us, to think we can swim clear of that current.
Steven Erikson
#26. I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation.
John McAfee
#27. I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history
Helen Thomas