Famous Quotes & Sayings

George R. R. Martin

So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.

Jim Carrey

I have been the guy who has everything but yet is so one-track minded about what I want, that I can't see my blessings.

Jeremy Taylor

Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

Pause and remember - The more you stay focused on your blessings the less stressed your life will be!

Jeremy Lin

All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

George Whitefield

As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.

Jefferson Davis

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

Jeremy Collier

A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.

Howard Keel

When I found out that I could carry a tune, well, I came to realize that I had a gift, that it was a kind of a blessing. And I think if you're given something special, you ought to try and give that something back. If you don't, it's a sin. No question.

Hosea Ballou

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

Horace

That best of blessings, a contented mind.

Horace

Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.

Gail Devers

My life is a blessing every day that I get up. God saved my feet. How am I not going to use them?

Fede Alvarez

You can make a film with a phone and a computer if you want, if you have the time. So it's a world that is saturated with films and all kind of stuff, so it's such a blessing to be able to make a film and people care, and even if they say that it's a bad idea, at least they care and they're talking about it.

Farrah Fawcett

Looking a certain way is a blessing and a curse.

Fanny Crosby

Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't.

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.

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

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.

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.

Francine Rivers

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

I couldn't cut, I couldn't walk. It was weak and giving out on me, ... To be honest, it was a blessing I could even play.

Don King

I am proud to be an American, I love my country and I love my troops. I want to do everything I can to lift them up in their hour of need but I cannot do it without the blessing of our commander in chief.

Jerry Seinfeld

Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with.

Jerome Lawrence

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

DVD is both a curse and a blessing. It's a blessing because it's this great new revenue stream for Hollywood. It also increases movie viewing because it's so convenient and collectable. But there is the perception that it is cannibalizing theatrical business to an extent,

Pat Robertson

Even if he stumbles and messes up -- and he's had his share of stumbles and gaffes -- I just think God's blessing is on him,

First Tennessee has been awfully good to me and offered me a lot of different opportunities and experiences. Really it's been a blessing to (wife) Jane and me.

William Wallace

Blessings on the hand of women!Angels guard its strength and grace,In the palace, cottage, hovel,Oh, no matter where the place. . . .

Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.

William Wordsworth

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!