Quotes of Endow - somelinesforyou

“ The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions. ”

- Marquis de Vauvenargues

“ Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. ”

- Michel Foucault

“ The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. ”

- Ezra

“ To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman. ”

- Jane Harrison

“ We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. ”

- Denis Diderot

“ We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment. ”

- John McDonald

“ Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history. ”

- Unknown

“ Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with. ”

- Ovid

“ Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant. ”

- Zelda Fitzgerald

“ I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity. ”

- Lucretia Mott

“ Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ The national leader requires a foundation of good qualities; if he possesses these, the nation will endow him with the rest. ”

- Cyril Falls

“ Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. ”

- Alex Grey

“ There is no moral virtue in being endowed with genius rather than talent: It is a gift of the gods or the luck of the genes. ”

- Dorothy Green

“ Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland. ”

- Jinato Hu

“ What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. ”

- Max Jacob

“ Ladies, here's a hint; if you're playing against a friend who has big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed. ”

- Billie Jean King

“ I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. ”

- Miriam Makeba

“ Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. ”

- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“ In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, lived a youth whom nature had endowed with a most sweet disposition. ”

- Voltaire

“ All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us. ”

- Arnold J. Toynbee

“ Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship… the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ Man is a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ”

- Galileo Galilei

“ But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Every man must at last accept himself for his portion, and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed. ”

- Charles A. Hawley
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