Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

God bless us, every one!

Charles Caleb Colton

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

Charles Stanley

The person who has the motivational gift of giving has a tremendous opportunity to be a blessing to others in the body of Christ, to encourage others in the proper use of their finances, and to make the extension of the Gospel possible.

Charles Spurgeon

When we ask of the Lord coolly, and not fervently, we do as it were, stop His hand, and restrain Him from giving us the very blessing we "pretend" that we are seeking.

Charles Spurgeon

We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God's will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.

Charles Spurgeon

You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings

Al Jarreau

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.

Akshay Kumar

I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.

Scott Meyers

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Mark Larson

Where most manufacturers are coming down on this is they want to work with traditional retailers in online channels as they do in the stores,

Lauren Worsham

I was one of those kids who liked a lot of attention. I was always the kid in class who'd be telling jokes and getting in trouble. Theater was a natural way for me to channel that and also become a productive member of society.

Michael Bowers

Years ago, Channel Seven said they couldn't put it on because it just wouldn't work and it was a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Lester Holt

Sometimes, I'll be flipping the channel at home and think, 'Wow, there's a lot of me on TV.'

Todd Chanko

The real issue here is whether or not there's going to be a paradigm shift or real channel shift (to video players).

Travis Bradberry

Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.

Jenna Blum

When I lived in Minneapolis in my twenties, and my mom lived there, too, I used to take her 'storm chasing' - by which I mean I'd see a pulsing blob of radar on The Weather Channel and make her drive us toward the storm.

Jaswant Singh

When the need arises, the two militaries can engage in dialogue through existing established channels so that the de-escalation process is properly handled,

Larry Robinson

What makes him the player that he is, ... is also a detriment too.

Larry Flynt

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

Chris McNeil

Our state representative has been in office for (nine) years, and we still have not gotten this roadway expanded to the detriment of all neighborhoods and businesses.

Gbola Amusa

You might have less competitive intensity than you think. It will be competitive, but not to the detriment of players involved. There's room to grow for the entire business, and rising tides will lift all boats.

Arlen Specter

your adversaries to speculate on this issue to the detriment of your nomination.

Jim Higgins

I'm feeling personally that 24-hour operation is going to be a detriment to the neighborhood.

Paul Dergarabedian

But if it's a really fine film, it won't be a detriment to its success.

John Moores

In such a small county, that is a great detriment to the district attorney's office.

Michael MacCambridge

When everybody starts broadcasting games the way 'Monday Night Football' did, then 'Monday Night Football' is not as exceptional and unique as it once was. You can turn on ESPN 2 now and see the same techniques being used for the Kent State-Akron game.

Oscar Hoya

Lose this fight and you'll be fighting on ESPN on Friday nights.

Dan Daly

Looking forward to Four Minutes, the ESPN original movie that's premiering next month. I haven't gotten the press kit yet, but I'm pretty sure it's about Patrick Ramsey's stint as the Redskins' starting quarterback this season.

Dan Daly

Looking forward to 'Four Minutes,' the ESPN original movie that's premiering next month. I haven't gotten the press kit yet, but I'm pretty sure it's about Patrick Ramsey 's stint as the Redskins' starting quarterback this season.

Patrick McEnroe

I think that was a tough loss to take. I watched most of the match. He was up two sets to love and up 3-love in the third. I went off to an ESPN production meeting, which I'm now sorry I did. When I looked up 45 minutes later, it was two sets apiece. I couldn't figure out what happened.

Richard Greenfield

Nobody could have anticipated how much of a financial juggernaut ESPN would become.

Stephen Rodrick

Celebs that hit the West Hollywood/Beverly Hills quadrant and places like the Urth Caffe are not exactly trying to keep a low profile; it's sort of like if LeBron James went to an ESPN Zone and then whined about being hounded for autographs.

Jeff Feagles

I'm a realist. I don't think they're going to open up ESPN the next day with my story,

George Bodenheimer

Monday Night Football is the premier property in sports television. All the players get up for it. All the teams watch. It's a national showcase. To be able to transition it to ESPN is an honor.

Brittany Rogers

We know what it felt like to lose up here. We didn't want that to happen again.

Kelsey Cermak

We know how it felt to go home after one game last year. We didn't want to go through that again.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

M. Night Shyamalan

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Charles Dickens

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

Charles Stross

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Dianne Feinstein

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

Darren Shan

Your spikes have gone floppy,

David Sedaris

I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.

Cesar Romero

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

James Fenkner

Why sully the country's reputation when they've gone down this path only to back off at the end?

Mariana Fulger

Where is Philosophy sleeping this saturday afternoon? Are the philosophers already dead? Are the poets gone from the planet? I look through the window and all I see are advertisments.

Tim Purpura

When you've been teammates that long, you're going to go through some ups and downs. They've gone through some down times.

David Strathairn

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

David Parry

We stopped for some plays that weren't worthy of being looked at.

Herb Trimpe

When I looked at the other artists when I first started at Marvel, I was surrounded by giants. It was very intimidating.

Marian Seldes

I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.

Daryl Hall

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

Troy Dolan

When I was a freshman, I didn't wrestle as well here as I thought I could. I looked up at the stands and saw lots of people.

Terry Trippler

United just looked in the rearview mirror, and they do not want to go back from where they came.

Dave Bautista

Yes, I am physical but never go looking for fights. I have been in my share of them but never looked for them.

Raymond Domenech

We have reviewed the tape of the match and there were many situations in which we looked anything but comfortable. They put us under a lot of pressure and we were lucky to win.

Gene Upshaw

The price of poker will go up. We can not stay in the place where we are now.

Jim Griffin

It's a computer. It's not a poker machine.

Evan Depew

I used to play real poker at least twice a week.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

Charles de Lint

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

Charles Dickens

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

Charles Dickens

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

Alanis Morissette

My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred

Alan Rickman

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Al Stewart

Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

Diane von Furstenberg

If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.

Diane von Furstenberg

I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.