Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eli Broad

My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren't empire builders.

Maybe those (losses) are a blessing in disguise because they have to work harder.

Now that he has changed the weather, Lion and lamb can vote together. God bless the Russian delegation, I waive consecutive translation.

John Dryden

Fortune, that with malicious joy, Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleas'd to bless

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, / Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

God has blessed us with so many people coming to help.

God has blessed this church in such a great way. It is a very loving church; people are so comfortable because of relationships here.

God blesses them with the treasure of devotional worship, which no one can take away. They obtain the treasure of virtue, the One True Lord, within their minds.

Allen Iverson

God blessed me with another opportunity. If that didn't work, I'd probably be in (the interview room) now, losing a lot of money.

O Motherland! May we,your subjects unite and be 'sweet-speakers'! Bless all of us so that we too could be soft spoken.

George Harrison

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Hilary Swank

It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that I'm so blessed to play are some of the most compelling stories, and the truth is stranger than fiction.

Fanny Crosby

If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind...for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Saviour.

Fanny Kemble

Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.

Fanny Kemble

Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.

Ezra Taft Benson

Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.

Ezra Taft Benson

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

Ezra Taft Benson

The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.

Ezra Taft Benson

As members of the Lord's Church, we must take missionary work more seriously. The Lord's commission to 'preach the gospel to every creature' (Mark 16:15) will never change in our dispensation. We have been greatly blessed with the material means, the technology, and an inspired message to bring the gospel to all men. More is expected of us than any previous generation. Where 'much is given much is required.' (D&C 82:3.)

Ezra Taft Benson

What does the Atonement have to do with missionary work? Any time we experience the blessings of the Atonement in our lives, we cannot help but have a concern for the welfare of others. ... A great indicator of one's personal conversion is the desire to share the gospel with others.

Euripides

Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.

Francis of Assisi

Do not put off any longer confessing all your sins, for death will soon come. Give and it will be given you; forgive and you will be forgiven. . . Blessed are they who die repentant, for they shall go to the Kingdom of Heaven!

Francis of Assisi

Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

Francis Ford Coppola

I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.

Francis Chan

God has given you this good stuff so that you can show the world a person who enjoys blessings, but who is still totally obsessed with God.

Francis Chan

Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.

Francine Rivers

Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I've truly been blessed. I've taken my time, kept my eye on the prize and done what I've had to do. So I'm able to make a choice when to retire. Most fighters really couldn't.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the limit.

George Washington

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes.

George Washington

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

George Meredith

God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

Chris Hayes

Chris Christie travelled to Ft. Worth, Texas, to give his blessing to a former rival who one week ago was approvingly discussing killing Muslim terrorists with bullets smeared in pig`s blood.