Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ruta Sepetys

Mrs. Rimas cried at the mention of the wafer and the traditional Christmas blessing. "God grant that we are all together again next year.

Ross Gelbspan

To restore our inflamed atmosphere to a hospitable state requires nothing less than rewiring the entire globe - and replace every oil-burning furnace, every gasoline-burning car, every coal-burning generating plant, with renewable, climate-friendly energy sources. The earth's fossil fuel resources have blessed us with a level of prosperity and abundance unimaginable a century ago. Today they are propelling us forward into a century of disintegration.

Ross Perot

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

Russ Grimm

The success I had as a player, or the career I had as a player, is often based on the guys you play beside, the guys you play with. Playing on the offensive line, you're only as good as your weakest guy up front. I was blessed to play with a lot of guys for a long time.

Thomas Merton

Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise and tension of modern life, at least for a little while, in order to relax their minds and wills and seek a blessed healing sense of inner unity, reconciliation, integration?

Thomas Merton

The primordial blessing, 'increase and multiply', has suddenly become a hemorrhage of terror. We are numbered in billions, and massed together, marshalled, numbered, marched here and there, taxed, drilled, armed, worked to the point of insensibility, dazed by information, drugged by entertainment, surfeited with everything, nauseated with the human race and with ourselves, nauseated with life.

Thomas Carlyle

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

Thomas Carlyle

It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

Tony Campolo

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

Tony Campolo

The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

Tom Sizemore

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

Rumi

I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing

Rumi

Every step I take is a blessing.

Roy H. Williams

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Ron Perlman

I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.

Susan Sarandon

One night I looked down and my rosary beads were glowing. And I realized that I did not want to see the blessed Virgin - I was terrified.

Susan Sarandon

When I grew up in the church, we were praying because the Communists were going to come over and hang you upside down on a cross, and I so wanted to be a good person, and I had these rosary beads that I would sleep with every night, and I just wanted the blessed Virgin to be on my side.

Sukhwinder Singh

I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.

Stonewall Jackson

Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished

Sonny Perdue

But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.

Solon

As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.

Steve Kaufman

I'm truly blessed to be doing what I've always wanted - CREATE. I have found a freedom that is hard to put into words. I always wondered about my projects - which artists are working on what, and which directions should I take? I don't even think of those things now. I passionately go into my studio and ask myself, what would I like to create today?

Stephen Fry

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws...

Sri Chinmoy

Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul.

Sri Chinmoy

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

Ringo Starr

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

Tim McGraw

We're very blessed, just very fortunate to have the things we have.

Tiger Woods

If you're lucky to have three close people in your life, you're blessed.

Thomas Jefferson

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

Tom Selleck

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

Tom Hanks

The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.

Toby Jones

We're blessed with, as we were on Harry Potter, lead actors who are amazingly grounded people.

Tim Ferriss

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.