Top 100 Quotes About Lends
#2. I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.
Allyn Rachel
#3. In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims.
Michael Crichton
#4. Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.
Peter Tork
#5. Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?
Gustavo Gutierrez
#6. A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble. Even if a crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eye witness.
Paul Theroux
#7. One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
William Hazlitt
#8. My image lends itself a little bit more to the modern fan, sometimes more toward the kids, and I guess more toward the wine drinkers ... I mean, I have my own wine, and fans love to pull for people they relate to.
Jeff Gordon
#9. It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.
Tom Wolfe
#10. I have a thing about honesty; I think it's crucial to a relationship. Otherwise, one person holds all the power. It's healthy to be straightforward, and it turns out you can wind up weathering a lot. Knowing that everything is on the table - what you see is what you get - lends a sense of safety.
Jennifer Connelly
#12. If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.
Yoshida Kenko
#13. Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
Seneca The Younger
#14. My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better ... to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction - the most important characteristic of high well-being.
Gail Sheehy
#15. Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.
Charlotte Bronte
#16. God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but when love is grown
To ripeness, that on which it throve
Falls off, and love is left alone.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#17. Love neither lends nor borrows; Love neither buys nor sells; but when it gives, it gives it s all; and when it takes, it takes its all. Its very taking is a giving. Its very giving is a taking. Therefore is it the same to-day, to-morrow and forevermore.
Mikhail Naimy
#18. Proverbs 19:17 Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Lois Jackson
#19. Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
Menander
#20. He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
William Penn
#21. The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary.
Susan Stewart
#22. I approach every film I do in the same way, whether it's an action film or not an action film. I guess if a certain physicality lends itself to action, but I started acting before I reached puberty. I was 7 years old when I started acting. It wasn't until I became a bouncer in New York ...
Vin Diesel
#23. I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.
Rob McClure
#24. Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees.
Louis L'Amour
#25. The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies ... Subjective reason conforms to anything.
Max Horkheimer
#26. Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#27. The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.
Edmund Wilson
#28. The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.
Stephen Coonts
#29. I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.
David Sanborn
#30. As I have learned again and again from our nation's finest towns, like Madison and Austin and Boone and Bellingham, a college lends a town excellent personality and panache.
Nick Offerman
#31. Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around.
Alexander Payne
#32. A serious bibliophile never lends his books. In fact he does not even read his books, for fear of wearing them out.
Gerard De Nerval
#33. My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain is much more interesting to play.
Charles Dance
#34. He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward him for what he has done. PROVERBS 19:17
Joel Osteen
#35. Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis De Sade
#36. Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
Paul Anka
#37. Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
Dan Aykroyd
#38. My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.
Chris Klein
#39. Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music
Hans Zimmer
#40. I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.
Rhys Ifans
#41. Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
Honore De Balzac
#42. Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Thomas Campbell
#43. There are also half bricks ... As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#44. My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.
Cat Cora
#45. I don't want to talk to anyone, lest I squander your words' echo, which ripples like a shine over mine and lends their sound a richness.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#46. I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style.
Brooke Fraser
#47. Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ... man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#48. Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.
Reuben Fine
#49. Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William James
#50. RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?'
Jose Padilha
#51. I write about what life was like for typical young women of the sixties - not the type that made headlines, the Hanoi Janes or Angela Davises, but moderates who nonetheless got swept up by history's tides during that turbulent time. All that turmoil lends itself to drama, intrigue, and murder.
Kay Kendall
#52. It is interesting to ask why people who come to view art suddenly posture themselves as full of righteousness. It's as if my artwork suddenly lends a higher moral ground to everyone else in the Thai art world.
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
#53. You could have the best idea in the world, but if people don't like you, don't trust you, or don't know you, they're not going to consider it. However, if you cite what someone else is saying, someone they might have heard of, that lends the idea more credibility.
B.J. Mendelson
#54. Mathematically, maybe," I said. "But trust isn't one of those things that lends itself well to math." "Sure it does," Bob said. "You trust somebody, they betray you, you get a negative value. You never trust, they can never disappoint you, you break even.
Jim Butcher
#55. We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things. - ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
Scot McKnight
#56. While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.
Tony Campolo
#57. someone who lends his book is stupid, but one who returns it is stupider
Darmanto Jatman
#58. Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
#60. Dyslexia lends itself to original thinking, not rote formulas, because you can't do the formulas - you think up your own method based on intuition and instincts. Creativity is trial and error, trying to figure out a way to do something emotionally and intuitively.
Philip Schultz
#61. Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off? ... Third question for the conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
Robertson Davies
#63. I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams ... Man ... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton
#64. Some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very compressed and intense ...
John Geddes
#65. Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening.
Matthew Davis
#66. An atom is as true as a grain of sand
and yet
The former can ne'er be felt until the mingling
Of many in unison
Lends form and substance to the invisible
---Dreams---
Ilene B. Benator
#67. My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.
Harper Lee
#68. Towards the end of 'Dark Shadows,' the sets are cracking and bleeding, but so is Angelique. The fact that she breaks apart physically as well as mentally lends an added dimension, and I just loved playing that.
Eva Green
#69. God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
Aeschylus
#70. Everything has become so pop-rock oriented that finding a role for a soprano, and finding an audience for a soprano, is tricky. Unless you're dealing with a revival, which is why I do so many revivals - because my specific tone and vocal quality lends itself to that type of writing.
Laura Benanti
#71. The government never lends or gives anything to business that it does not take away from business.
Henry Hazlitt
#73. Smoking blood, over-filled cemeteries, mothers in tears, - these are formidable pleaders. When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear.
Victor Hugo
#74. We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.
Mac Barnett
#75. The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.
Peter Alliss
#76. There is just something about women who spend hours and hours knitting a sweater with mind-blowingly expensive yarn, when they could just buy a sweater for a fraction of the price - not to mention the time saved doing so - that lends itself to acceptance and patience for the human condition.
Penny Reid
#77. Hockey lends itself to special events, including the Olympic competition: a glorious tournament of the best players in the world, putting on their national jerseys and playing on big rinks with no-goon Olympic rules and referee enforcement.
George Vecsey
#78. Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.
Margaret Atwood
#79. Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#80. The reason many ... close their eyes while praying is to shut out the affairs of the world so that their minds can be completely concentrated on God ... it certainly lends itself to the attitude of prayer.
Billy Graham
#81. I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.
Patrick DeWitt
#82. The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.
Sigmund Freud
#83. Most happy stories are fantasies that never happened. A form of wish fulfillment. ( ... ) Telling happy stories that actually happened lends a sort of fairy-tale quality to real life. They remind the teller and the listener of the magic that can be found in the mundane if you pay close attention.
Megan McCafferty
#84. It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#85. Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Euripides
#86. is the mountain that lends its gregarious power to the multiple elements of this place.
David Abram
#87. Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.
Keri Russell
#88. On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, and it's really not mathematics.
Paul Dano
#89. Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
#90. Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
Henry James
#91. How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire.
Clara Schumann
#92. I always liked fog, it lends such a soft, beautifying light to things that otherwise in the broad glare of day would be rude and commonplace.
Nellie Bly
#93. The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#94. In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you're not good at guitar.
Autre Ne Veut
#95. Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence reduces the rarest delicacy to hopeless insipidity, and dinner to despair.
Elizabeth Robins Pennell
#96. Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;
Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss:
The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief
To him that bears the strong offence's cross.
William Shakespeare
#97. Forbear, you things
That stand upon the pinnacles of state,
To boast your slippery height! when you do fall,
You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise:
And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
Ben Jonson
#99. Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
Robert Browning
