Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick J. Adams

I'm really blessed with the people in my life who keep me on track and keep pushing me forward.

Patrick Henry

Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!

Pat Benatar

If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

Julia Quinn

It’s a curse, really,” Lady Danbury said. “I’m the only person I know my age who has perfect hearing.” “Most would call that a blessing.” She snorted. “Not with that musicale looming over the horizon.

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].

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.

Pope Paul VI

For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness of grace and truth. He raises the level of morals, fosters virtue, comforts the sorrowful, strengthens the weak and stirs up all those who draw near to Him to imitate Him, so that they may learn from his example to be meek and humble of heart, and to seek not their own interests but those of God.

Nichelle Nichols

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God Ive been able to succeed in my chosen career.

Neville Cardus

Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed.

John Armstrong

Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

John Ashcroft

Frankly, the president, during the first opportunity I had to be in a Cabinet meeting, before we started the meeting, he said, Folks, before we begin this meeting, I'm going to call on General Ashcroft and ask him invite the wisdom and presence of God in what we do. And I thought to myself how ashamed I'd been that so many times in my life I had entered upon great important tasks and I had cheated myself and those that I had served of a blessing.

Jim Cramer

I have never for a minute felt in was my stock picking abilities. I feel that my stock picking abilities aided- I was able to pick out which are the good stocks in the good market, but I have been blessed with a great market.

Jessica Sanchez

My experience working with a major label was not all bad, I was blessed to go through that experience, and I know what to do during the next time around.

Jeremy Renner

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

Jeremy Renner

I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.

Jeremy Renner

I'm able to really enjoy the wonderful things happening to me and that's a great blessing.

Glenn Danzig

Blessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside.

Glen Hansard

I've always loved playing solo. I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music. My favorite thing is usually whatever I'm doing right there and then.

Glen Hansard

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

Haile Selassie

If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us

Gus Malzahn

I totally believe that God has blessed me with the unique ability to know offense, to call offense.

Guru Nanak

Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain.

Guru Nanak

Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, the Immaculate, Almighty Lord God, meeting Him, I meditate on the Name of the Lord.

Guru Nanak

O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.

Guru Nanak

The word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord's name But more is the one who knows by the Guru's grace.

Gus Van Sant

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

H. G. Wells

This blessed gift of smoking!

H. G. Wells

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.