Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Sheckley

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.

Robert Rankin

It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.

Robert Lowell

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

Robert Ludlum

Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

Sasha Azevedo

It's amazing the life that I?m living today, and I count my blessings every day for the gifts that God has given me.

William Hazlitt

It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not!

Wendell Berry

THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware, as if by the beating of my heart. Suddenly you flare again in my sight A wild rose at the edge of the thicket where yesterday there was only shade And I am blessed and choose again, That which I chose before.

Walter Payton

God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.

W. Somerset Maugham

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

Yoko Ono

I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. It’s the male chauvinistic society that we’re living in for the longest time, 3,000 years or whatever. And so I just wanted to point out the fact that men and women are magical beings. We are very blessed that way, so I’m just bringing that out. Don’t be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power.

Willie Nelson

God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.

William Penn

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

William Penn

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.

Yehuda Berg

Uniting two halves of one soul is inevitable, but timing depends upon your level of spirituality. When the time is ripe, true soul mates find one another even if they are worlds apart— whether physically, on opposite sides of the globe, or spiritually, with contrasting lifestyles and backgrounds. Here’s wishing you the courage to keep growing so that you may know – or continue to know – the blessing of oneness.

Robert Mondavi

I feel blessed. So many men and women search and search but never find their passion, their calling, their sense of mission that would ignite their hearts and fill their lives with meaning and joy.

Robert Griffin III

I just try to make sure every day that I'm blessed to live on this earth that I seize that day. I'm 25 and, you know, I know with each passing second, I'm getting older. So, I might well seize every single one of those seconds and make sure I'm doing as much as I possibly can in the community to know we worked hard for this and to instill that into everybody around me is truly my goal.

Robert Asprin

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto

Rob Lowe

I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.

Ricky Martin

I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

Richard M. Nixon

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Rebecca Mader

It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

Richard Kiel

Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.

Richard L. Evans

One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and considerate of the feelings of other people.

Tullian Tchividjian

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

Tamara Tunie

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

Swami Vivekananda

Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.

Swami Vivekananda

Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!

Swami Vivekananda

May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.

Rollo May

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Rumi

Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.