Top 100 Quotes About Lends
#2. The business conduct of the disciples of wise men is truthful and faithful ... He does not allow himself to be made a surety or a guarantor and does not accept the power of attorney ... He lends money and is gracious. He shall not take away business from his fellow man.
Maimonides
#3. Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#4. What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the authority of their life and soul. The books I love are me, have become me.
Richard Flanagan
#5. An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.
Michel De Montaigne
#6. She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.
For she is his poet,
And he is her poetry.
Lang Leav
#7. I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.
Joyce Carol Oates
#8. There's always been violence in movies, and there will always be violence in movies. Whether it lends to the one psychotic that's out there, thinking the worst thoughts you could possibly thing, is always going to be a mystery.
Josh Brolin
#9. A money-lender
he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
Joseph Addison
#10. Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.
John Of Ruysbroeck
#11. The strength of opening manhood is never so well employed as in practicing subserviency to God's revealed will; it lends a grace and a beauty to religion, and produces an abundant harvest.
Richard Mant
#12. Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
Victor Hugo
#13. The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
Aberjhani
#14. To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.
Jim Garrison
#15. There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin
#16. When I was a kid, before there were VCRt, my parents had a movie projector, and we'd watch Frankenstein and Dracula. I just always though that stuff was cool - creepy comics and monsters and horrific stuff. Music lends itself to that whole theme.
Chris Reifert
#17. Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
Alexander Pope
#18. Rather than the destination it is the journey that lends meaning to our lives, great Neelkanth. Being faithful to our path will lead to consequences, both good as well as bad. For that is the way of the universe.
Amish Tripathi
#19. A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.
Mark Twain
#20. In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.
Marguerite Duras
#21. Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.
Natalie Portman
#22. Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#23. Absolute time would exist in a causal structure for which the concept indeterminate as to time order lends to a unique simultaneity, i.e., for which there is no finite interval of time between the departure and return of a first-signal ...
Hans Reichenbach
#24. Of all the enterprises in which the human heart engages, none lends itself more to abuse and manipulation than the activities of religion. For here, sacrifice and greed can meet in the most trusting and exploiting context.
Ravi Zacharias
#26. For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.
Matthew Modine
#27. India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#28. When well executed, description is unobtrusive and lends substance to a novel. It is the body fat of prose: too much is unhealthy, but without any, you no longer have the thing - you have its skeleton.
Howard Mittelmark
#29. To the worker, God himself lends aid.
Euripides
#30. When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.
Gerrit Smith
#31. Do not blame any supernatural being, neither be hopeless and despondent, nor think we are in a place from which we can never escape unless someone comes and lends us a helping hand.
Swami Vivekananda
#32. The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#33. Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.
William Shakespeare
#34. Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this "I" who speaks of speaking?
Terry Eagleton
#35. Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed.
Stephen Richards
#36. Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. Who takes out a home loan and doesn't make the first payment?" asked Danny Moses, putting the matter one way. "Who the fuck lends money to people who can't make the first payment?" asked Eisman, putting it another. When
Michael Lewis
#39. every shape and mode of matter lends Its force to the omnipotence of mind, Which from its dark mine drags the gem of truth To decorate its paradise of peace.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#40. Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.
Alan Watts
#41. We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.
Susan Jacoby
#42. When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.
Rudolf Steiner
#45. Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.
Victor Hugo
#46. Memory is the worst lender; It lends not until it borrows. And it borrows not unless it is broke at the previous lending.
Ashfaq Saraf
#47. Palestinian society is filled with poetry, but not experimental poetry. The Palestinian poetry that people know is not the modernist experimentations, it's certain kinds of poetry that lends itself to recitation and song and things like that.
Elliott Colla
#48. Imagine that this communication sometimes lends a sense of the uncanny to the landscape because of the narcissism of our human gaze, but that it is just part of the natural world here.
Jeff VanderMeer
#50. Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Arthur Miller
#51. The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.
James Gray
#52. Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
Enya
#53. When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
Sheryl Crow
#55. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Mark Twain
#56. Red stimulates and excites your nerves, pulse rate and blood circulation, and lends energy to your entire system. When you are fatigued, lethargic or sluggish for any reason, red has an energizing influence.
Tae Yun Kim
#57. And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
Ioan Gruffudd
#58. It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
Betty Ford
#59. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing, as Poor Richard says; and indeed so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again.
Benjamin Franklin
#60. Whatever else one may say about guilt, it certainly lends one diabolical powers of invention;
Donna Tartt
#61. My dad owns a company that lends equipment to industrial projects. I've been obsessed with taking it over since I could talk. I'd follow him and repeat conversations about how many tons of cranes were arriving. He said it was a man's world, so I studied electrical engineering because it was related.
Ruchi Sanghvi
#62. The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.
Pierce Brosnan
#63. The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.
George Meredith
#64. How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.
Robert M. Lindner
#65. I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.
Kaskade
#66. Oscar Wilde said: "Biography lends to death a new terror." Well, memoir adds that same promise to parenting.
Cathleen Miller
#67. Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
Dylan Thomas
#68. Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.
Simon Sinek
#69. When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.
Graeme Le Saux
#70. My daddy always said, 'Luck never gives, it lends,
Clive Cussler
#71. Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
Honore De Balzac
#72. ...seeing ghosts and demons just lends itself to listening to White Zombie and Slayer and Fantomas on repeat. One Direction and Selena Gomez are for the girls who don't see dead people every fucking day.
Karina Halle
#73. The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.
Eddie Cahill
#74. I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.
Franklin Pierce
#75. Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]
Michael Lewis
#76. Customers deposit money in a bank for interest; the bank lends that money to other people at a higher rate of interest. This isn't glamorous or interesting, but then banking is not supposed to resemble base jumping or hip-hop.
John Lanchester
#77. Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.
Simon Toyne
#78. It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
Halsey
#79. A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.
Lin Yutang
#80. Vision is perhaps our greatest strength ... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
Li Ka-shing
#81. We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
Sam Harris
#82. No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps.
Max Born
#83. I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen. And yes, I suppose I was interested in that story in the gap between memory itself, the real business of being alive, and the imagination.
Colm Toibin
#84. It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!
Margot Robbie
#85. The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
Theodor Adorno
#86. It's the people that ultimately are less talented or have less confidence in what they're doing that then try to micro-manage, which lends itself to a less than ideal film.
Ari Graynor
#87. Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
H.P. Lovecraft
#88. I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.
Lisa McMann
#89. I really think that the 'Jersey Boys' musical - and this is just my opinion - lends itself to being cinematic in some way, because it's a jukebox musical; the characters break into song only for the scene transitions.
Vincent Piazza
#90. I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.
William Shakespeare
#91. The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything.
Swami Vivekananda
#92. Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Mark Twain
#93. Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.
Walter Scott
#94. Love, indeed, lends a precious seeing to the eye, and hearing to the ear: all sights and sounds are glorified by the light of its presence.
Arthur Frederick Saunders
#95. It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance.
Bertrand Russell
#96. One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the tiger.
Ron Franscell
#97. So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
Todd Gitlin
#98. It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus.
Isaac Asimov
#100. Writing brings scant relief. It retraces, it delimits. It lends a touch of coherence, the idea of a kind of realism. One stumbles around in a cruel fog, but there is the odd pointer. Chaos is no more than a few feet away. A meagre victory, in truth.
Michel Houellebecq