Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierce Brosnan

Many people think that hunger is unavoidable in any society, even a society that is blessed with great abundance. That is not true. The European community does not have widespread hunger. America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

Phoebe Cary

All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today

Mother Teresa

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

Peace Pilgrim

Penance is the willingness to undergo hardships for the achievement of a good purpose. I was willing. But when hardships came I found myself lifted above them. Instead of hardship, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy and conviction that I was following God's will. Blessings instead of hardships are showered upon me.

Peace Pilgrim

To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but I am really very rich in blessings which no amount of money could buy - health and happiness and inner peace.

Peter Straub

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Terry Pratchett

Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.

Terri Blackstock

...every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.

Terrence McNally

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.

Teresa Medeiros

Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. -sir Bannor-

Teena Marie

You never know where a blessing can come from.

Randall Terry

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

Lewis Mumford

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.

Leslie Banks

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

Marcus Garvey

Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South, East and West. And then we you have wrought well, you will have merited God's blessing, you will become God's chosen people and naturally you'll become leaders of the world.

Thomas a Kempis

Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.

Thomas a Kempis

Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

Taylor Swift

You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing.

Joseph Conrad

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Josh Turner

I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.

Kate Millett

one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.

Leonard Cohen

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

Leighton Meester

I've been so blessed to work with the people I have.

Laz Alonso

I've been very blessed to work in some films that I'm very proud of.

Laz Alonso

Being able to travel and see the world really makes me appreciate the blessings in my life. There are so many people that will never get a chance to see some of the things that I've seen during my travels. I'll never take that for granted.

Lawrence Welk

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

Laura Vandervoort

Originally, when I got the role of Lisa [from Visitors], I was a little concerned, because I was worried I would be typecast as an alien for the rest of my life. But they are so, so different that it wasn't at all a problem. I'm very lucky. I'm blessed to be on another show. I think it's going to do really well.

Laura Z. Hobson

We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed -- these are corruptions.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.

L. Lionel Kendrick

We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.