Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

Homelessness is a horrible plight, especially for someone with a family. I have a great husband, great children who are healthy, doing well in school and are well adjusted. A lot has been given to me. I don't know why my life is so blessed and why others (that) work just as hard, for some reason, are not. I want to do what I can and I'm impressed with the integrity of Habitat for Humanity.

Lydia Child

Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

He told us where to go, who to try to find and where not to go. We were very blessed to have him.

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he haith not seen shall bless him.

Bill Cowher

He's what's great about the NFL. I'm very fortunate and blessed to work for organization and a man like that.

He's an offensive player. He was on with his shooting and he was playing good defense. He's got a shooter's mentality. And the three at the end: God bless him.

Gazing upon the Fruitful Vision of His Darshan, I have been saved. Blessed are the hours, the minutes and the seconds - blessed is that Union with Him.

Charlotte Bronte

Good-night, Dr. John; you are good, you are beautiful; but you are not mine. Good-night, and God bless you!

Friedrich Nietzsche

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

George Bernard Shaw

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

Gary Lineker

I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.

I know I definitely would rather have been playing, but it was kind of a blessing in disguise. I'm more comfortable with the offense and the whole system now. I've been able to study my guards, too.

I honestly didn't know anything about it, until one of my players looked it up on the Internet and told me. I have been blessed with good players, so all of the recognition should go to them.

I haven't had a long run in a long time. It felt so good. My mom told me I had a blessing coming today. It was just my day.

I have to do a good deed for the community. I have to do five things, so I thought this was a good idea. It's important because one day you're going to need that blessing and one day they'll repay you and you'll feel really good about yourself.

I have searched and searched, seeking the Blessed Vision of His Darshan. I travelled through all sorts of woods and forests.

I really think it's a true blessing to have this installed.

Larry Brown

He's exceptional. I've been blessed to coach a lot of great kids, but he's at the top of the list for me.

How can God bless California when our lawmakers do this? ... The Democrat-controlled Senate has completely overturned the people's vote on marriage.

He's our fifth-string tailback. Kenny, God bless him, has the heart of a lion, but he's 5-foot-5, 125 pounds. We were at the point where we just wanted to reach down and pound it out, and we're stuck without our first three tailbacks.

Todd Lodwick

I didn't jump the way I wanted to. I haven't had that really good feeling. ... This is not a break, but it's a blessing in disguise. We weren't prepared mentally the way we should have been.

J. J. Abrams

I feel blessed that I get to be part of entertaining people in any capacity.

J. I. Packer

William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish.

Ginnifer Goodwin

But often times, I feel like I'm so blessed, it's not fair. That what I'm doing is not contributing to the good of the world.

Gerry Spence

I love my life and I am so blessed.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.

Gwyneth Paltrow

When I was starting out, I would get printouts of what was being written about me that week. At first it was all good things, and then it started to turn. I very quickly learned, "This isn't good, this isn't helping me." But it was a very important exercise for me in terms of really understanding that one's sense of self is internal. I have had an extreme opportunity to learn that lesson, and I think it's been such a blessed fortune.

Logan Mankins

He's such a great athlete, you watch him and you wonder how he does it. I think he's pretty blessed to have that ability.

The mild winter we had really helped. We were blessed with good construction weather.

Their rhetoric is that perhaps God's blessing has been removed and we can't expect to be protected.