Famous Quotes & Sayings

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

Richard M. Nixon

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Rebecca Mader

It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

Richard Kiel

Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.

Richard L. Evans

One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and considerate of the feelings of other people.

Tullian Tchividjian

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

Tupac Shakur

I truly believe I've been blessed by God, and God walks with me

Tracy Morgan

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

Vance Havner

The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.

Uma Thurman

I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

Rodney King

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

Robin Hobb

Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.

Robert Rodriguez

Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.

Robert Redford

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.

Robert Sheckley

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.

Robert Rankin

It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.

Robert Lowell

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

Robert Ludlum

Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

Sasha Azevedo

It's amazing the life that I?m living today, and I count my blessings every day for the gifts that God has given me.

Sara Teasdale

No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and precious stone, Lay it on your hot cheek, Let it hide your tear. Hold it like a crystal When you are alone And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. Long, look long and you will be blessed: No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

Samuel Rutherford

Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.

Ving Rhames

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

Willard Gaylin

Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.

Will Smith

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

Wayne Dyer

I greet every new day with the words, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' That's the state of mind that directs me, fulfills me, and sends me out into the world with a gift to share. It's a blessing that I have learned over a lifetime - to experience the presence of Spirit in most of my waking moments. It's a feeling of contentment and satisfaction, of peace and love.

Walter Annenberg

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Virginia Woolf

O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the trees and rivers which alone can keep one cool and childlike in the midst of the troubles of the world!

Virginia Woolf

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

William Beveridge

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

Samuel Smiles

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

Samuel Beckett

What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come

Salvatore Ferragamo

I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard.