Lends Quotes

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.

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.

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.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

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.

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.

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.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

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.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

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.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

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.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

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.

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

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.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

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.

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.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.