Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terri Blackstock

...every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.

Terrence McNally

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.

Randall Terry

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

Lewis Mumford

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.

Leslie Banks

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

Marcus Garvey

Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South, East and West. And then we you have wrought well, you will have merited God's blessing, you will become God's chosen people and naturally you'll become leaders of the world.

Peter Straub

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Peter F. Hamilton

How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.

Philip Pullman

It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can’t do is choose neither.

Joseph Kosinski

An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that you can pick up with and continue on with but then you have a lot of people out there who haven't seen the first and might feel like this isn't a movie for them because of that.

Kofi Annan

It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.

Kevin Hart

My road to success was a long road to success was a long road. You get out of something what you put into it. I put blood, sweat and tears into stand-up comedy and the entertainment realm in general. For me to just know be coming around is a blessing. It's a blessing and it's an honor. It makes me say I can get more and I can do more.

James F. Cooper

One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty.

Henry Rollins

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

Henry B. Eyring

Ask yourself, 'How did God bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings.

Henry B. Eyring

We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.

Henry B. Eyring

The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

Henry B. Eyring

Those who are faithful to God are protected and prospered. That comes as the result of serving God and keeping His commandments. But with those blessings comes the temptation to forget their source. It is easy to begin to feel the blessings were granted not by a loving God on whom we depend but by our own powers.

Heber J. Grant

In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families.

Hedy Lamarr

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

Manly Hall

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Jorge Posada

Some days are a blessing when you wake up and you say, 'Wow, I feel good today.' Some days are like: 'Wow, I feel bad. I got no chance today.' You tape it up and you go.

Jonny Lang

Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.

Joni Eareckson Tada

A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.

Kevin Brockmeier

It's like you're born with all these blessings, only you don't realize they're blessings until you lose them. And if you're thick-headed enough, like me, you don't even realize you've lost them, not until they come back to you.

Luther Burbank

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

You can write whatever you want, but that game was exactly what it was. That's how we played. This is probably a blessing in disguise, for us to get it out of our system.

John Updike

All blessings are mixed blessings.

John Suckling

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear...

John Shelby Spong

Religion is a mixed blessing.

James Robertson

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.

Thomas a Kempis

Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.