Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Babbitt

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

Kim Delaney

Everything is really good and I'm blessed.

Kevin Powers

As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.

Mary Renault

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Mary Baker Eddy

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

Mario Vazquez

I'm excited and blessed.

Nicki Minaj

Call it a curse, or just call me blessed, if you can't handle my worst, you ain't getting my best

Marvin J. Ashton

Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts.

Marvin J. Ashton

Blessed is he or she who avoids being offended.

Mark Twain

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

Neal A. Maxwell

Blessed is he who will not be offended

Mark Batterson

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

Nadine Gordimer

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

Nadia Boulanger

Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.

R. C. Sproul

But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

Publilius Syrus

When reason rules, money is a blessing.

Joseph Sobran

What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects the wealth they produce. Last September (2001) a handful of fanatics, armed only with box-cutters, provided a new rationale for the trillion -dollar swindle. A bonanza! I don't know what these 'terrorists' thought they were achieving: Making the infidel respect Allah? If so, they were wrong. You might as well try to make the U.S. government respect the U.S. Constitution.

Oscar Wilde

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

Paris Hilton

I have done everything that I wanted to do, and I feel very blessed that I have been very successful on every area. So it's very exciting. There is nothing else to do.

Padmasree Warrior

You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

Oswald Chambers

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.

LeAnn Rimes

The Holy Spirit said I was blessed and was going to touch hearts everywhere.

Okky Madasari

For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.

As a coach, you're always looking for challenges. You just pray for an opportunity and a blessing comes through and you have to at least take a look at it.

It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take them just as gladly. This applies to food and friends and kindred, to anything God gives and takes away... As long as God is satisfied do thou rest content. If he is pleased to want something else of thee, still rest content.

Pope Benedict XVI

The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing the world open so that heaven my enter in, may become "present" within it.

Pope Francis

Before I give you a blessing, I ask you for a favor: I want you to bless me.

Paulo Coelho

You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.

Paulo Coelho

Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.

Quentin Crisp

The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

Everything that happens is either a blessing, which is also a lesson, or a lesson which is also a blessing.