Impart Quotes - Page 7

• As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Running, Home, Winning

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.6938, Delphi Classics

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• Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  God, Moon, West

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• The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.

  Matthew Arnold

  Happiness, Joy, Bears

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.30

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• The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Running, Circles, Groups

  "Preaching as Counseling : The Unique Method of Harry Emerson Fosdick". Book by Edmund Holt Linn, 1966.

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• The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Giving, Inspire, Good Man

  Dwight L Moody (2001). “The Secret of Success in the Christian Life”, p.19, Moody Publishers

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• The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it will be capable of spontaneously producing, with no effort of hesitation, a magnificent and wonderfully ordered expression of his nature and our destinies.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Destiny, Men

  "The Art of Poetry". Book by Paul Valery, 1958.

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• In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Men, Israel

  John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

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• To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When you spend time making something with your two hands, you impart love in a way that buying never can.

  Natalie

  Quilts, Lying, Hands

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• Impart additional strength to our happy Union.?Diversified as are the interests of its various parts, how admirably do they harmonize and blend together!?We have only to make a proper use of the bounties spread before us, to render us prosperous and powerful.

  Henry Clay

  Powerful, Together, Use

  Calvin Colton, Henry Clay (1857). “The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay: In Six Volumes”, p.51

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• Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words imparts majesty to a prince, provided histhoughts and orders are understood, so the presence of only the strictly necessary numbers of bodies confers dignity on a picture.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Artist, Order, Numbers

  1436 On Painting (translated by Cecil Grayson).

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• By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Tails

  'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155

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• My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the hermaphrodite and the living skeleton were interesting for the same reason as was Creatore, or the resplendent Guardsmen of the bands - because such people did not often come my way, and I hoped that they might impart some great revelation to me, some insight which would help me to a clearer understanding of the world about me.

  Robertson Davies

  Skeletons, Interesting, People

  "I Remember Creatore". Essay by Robertson Davies, 1948.

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• And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!

  Luc de Clapiers

  Children, Heart, Dark

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• Fate is what Heaven imparts.

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Fate, Heaven

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• Divinity reveals herself in all things. Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.

  Giordano Bruno

  Essence, Divinity, Lasts

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!

  Alexander Pushkin

  Heart, Sound, Moscow

  "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

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• He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Two, Charity, Coats

  Lancelot Andrewes, Peter Hall (1839). “The private devotions and Manual for the sick of Launcelot Andrews”, p.126

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• In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Teacher, Knowledge, East

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Effort, Strive

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• I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Philosophy, Believe

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• Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
  - Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us from.

  Marcel Proust

  Wise, Journey, Men

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• Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Feelings, Unity, Enthusiasm

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.

  James Gates Percival

  Sweet, Flower, Heart

  James Gates Percival, James Gordon Brooks, James Lawson, Henry Denison, George Robertson (jr. of Savannah, Ga) (1828). “The Columbian lyre: or, Specimens of transatlantic poetry”, p.228

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• Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

  George Washington

  Blessing, Whole Family, Mankind

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• Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart
  To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.

  William Cowper

  Art, Modest, Virgins

  William Cowper (1819). “Poems”, p.76

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