Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spike Milligan

Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light

Spike Lee

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

Shirley Temple

I've been so blessed. If someone asked me whom I would choose to be if I could come back in another life, I would have to say Shirley Temple Black. I cannot think of a more interesting life to ask for.

Shakti Gawain

May you be blessed with everything your heart desires.

Pope Francis

Solidarity...is a structural value of the social doctrine, as Blessed John Paul II reminded us.

Pope Francis

Before I give you a blessing, I ask you for a favor: I want you to bless me.

Kendrick Lamar

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

Katy Perry

I feel really blessed because of where I come from.

Teresa Medeiros

Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. -sir Bannor-

Teena Marie

You never know where a blessing can come from.

James Martineau

When the blessed Spirit, that bloweth where it listeth, visits you and stirs the plumage of the soul, seek no cowardly shelter from it, but fling yourself upon it, and, though its sweep be awful, you shall be sustained. Only do this, do all, not in presumptuous daring, but in divine submission; in dependence, not on any strength that can be spent, but on the ever-living stay of all that trust in Him.

James Madison

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

James Madison

But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT good; and that in every political institution, a power to advance the public happiness, involves a discretion which may be misapplied and abused.

Stanley Kunitz

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

Stacie Orrico

Every time we've gone somewhere, it's just been better and better and God's always blessed us for following.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.

Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

Stella Benson

Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

Thomas Hobbes

We are not to renounce our senses and experience, nor (that which is the undoubted Word of God) our natural Reason. For they are the talents which he hath put into our hands to negotiate, till the coming again of our blessed savior, and therefore not to be folded up in the napkin of an implicate faith, but employed in the purchase of justice, peace, and true religion. For though there be many things in God's Word above Reason--that is to say, which cannot by natural reason be either demonstrated or confuted--yet there is nothing contrary to it.

Tim Tebow

I definitely consider myself extremely blessed to have great partners in endorsing products. It's not about being on billboards. I endorse something because I believe in it.

Tim Tebow

I'm blessed, because of my faith, that I don't have to worry about the future because I know who holds my future

Tim Tebow

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

Thomas Jefferson

A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions. But should even this be counteracted by violence on the right of expatriation, the other branch of our example then presents itself for imitation: to rise on their rulers and do as we have done.

Thomas Goodwin

We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.

Thomas Ken

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

Thomas Chalmers

Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness — but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity.

Thomas Chalmers

It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.

Vin Scully

I've always felt, it's a gift of God, whatever I have, whatever has made me do what I do for as long as I do it. But I know I can lose that in one second. A stroke. Whatever. One second. Blow the whole thing. So, when you do think about that, you realize how fortunate and how blessed you've been, and that's really how I feel.

Ruben Studdard

I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.

Ruben Studdard

I'm always happy for people when I see God blessing them the way he's blessed me.

Ruben Studdard

I feel like I have been totally blessed with everything that I have done.

Ruben Studdard

And to be able to do it, to be able to accomplish the goal you've always set for yourself is always a blessing.