Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some

Lynn Davis

I was thinking more of my blessings instead of my problems.

Hannah Turner

Getting to meet people down there was my favorite part. I was able to help people carry groceries to and from the store or take care of children. That was one of the blessings I received.

Anonymous Toast

Four blessings upon you - Older whiskey - Younger women - Faster horses - More money

William Channing

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Channing

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

L. Estrange

We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry

Jon Papelbon

I got lucky. Count your blessings and move on.

Unknown

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness come through your door.

Paul Adams

Recreation was important because we didn't have any. Here we were a water district and growing by leaps and bounds. It was too large to be governed by a county commission.

Shami Chakrabarti

reflect on the culture of intolerance that he may be promoting in his party and the country as a whole.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

Referendums are not held in an unstable country with unstable society.

King Abdullah

reject any country to have nuclear weapons, especially in the Middle East region.

Mark Fabiani

Our position is that we want to keep the team in San Diego and we're going to do everything possible to make that happen. We will explore all of our options within the county of San Diego the minute we're (contractually) able to do so.

John Bowen

Our position is that as a matter of law it's approved. The county would have to notify us if they disagree with that.

Philip Reeker

Our policy toward Iran has not changed. The president has said we will be looking for indications that countries do want to change. But ... we've had long-standing concerns.

Eric Stuckey

Parking itself is a very speculative revenue source. We have been hesitant to count on that as too much of a funding source.

John Tesh

Pat, the last election was decided by voters who listed 'moral values' as their primary concern. What do you think this means for the country and should we try to mend fences with the liberals?

Nora Martinez

Patty Kelly fought very hard to keep it in the family and to keep it open. She wanted to keep it part of Hoboken.

Shintaro Ishihara

Part of her must feel carefree, relieved, now that she has left the imperial family and become a commoner. I want to set up an opportunity so that she can get a taste of this.

Harris Pastides

Our medical school puts the highest percentage of graduates into pediatrics and family practice in the country.

Marion Jones

Our lives are so hectic and full, and we have a big family right now.

Mike Strauss

People need to sign up to be organ donors, but then they need to talk to their family about it so there is no question what to do with your organs.

Liz Harrison

People have passed on wonderful family trips, family reunions, missed funerals, missed weddings.

Wendy Rosenbach

People have larger tracts of land and they'll hunt it themselves or have family and friends hunt it.

Kendall Simmons

People in his family have diabetes, so he knew what I was going through, and he talked to me about it. On other teams, when they find out you have it, it's like you have a handicap and you become a liability. They don't even give you a chance.

Tommy Hutton

People may see this and judge without really knowing the stuff he's gone through the last few years. My wife and I went to see him and his family after his son died. He was very quiet. At a time like that, all you can do as a friend is just be there.

Michael Kramer

Sterling has a good young team. But we were fortunate to be able to do the things we wanted to do in the second half. I like the way our girls got after it today.

Rick VanMatre

Our worst quarter was the third. We started out well, but we let them get back into it at the end of the second by putting them at the foul line, and they made their shots - we didn't. We've struggled with shooting lately, but we were fortunate to make plays in the end.

Michael Center

Roger was my first recruit at Texas. Roger is just the best. He is a great person, great student and a great team guy. Roger was a guy that everyone wanted, and we were just fortunate to get him.

Derek Morris

I was just fortunate to be a place to get a shot through and we had a great screen.

Sammy Knight

I was just fortunate enough to be in the right place.

Eduardo Perez

I was just fortunate enough that he missed a spot on his fastball. I guess that's what you're supposed to do with it.

John Sikes

I think they all see the movie differently, which is good. I think we were fortunate to get in on all the behind-the-scenes stuff, which really interests people. We try to tell the story of what happens in a local race. It really turned out to be a labor of love.

Jon Lester

Just as I'm fortunate to pitch in the big leagues, I'm also fortunate for the time I get to spend outdoors.

Mike Smith

Jerry and Pat and Gary, those guys retiring, it's sad. I was fortunate enough to learn a whole lot from those guys - and not just about riding, but in the way we handled ourselves. They were ambassadors for the sport.

Mike Bianco

Right now, sugar is not so sweet. Everybody's raised their prices.

Ron Gardenhire

That was (coach Paul) Molitor yelling at the umpire, not me. I just raised and said, 'What?' and he told me to get out of here.

Jessica Stroup

I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Robert Milmore

If another bidder comes in the stakes could be raised on TWA to where AMR doesn't think it's worth it.

Sharon Cody

I was raised with a sense of not throwing things away.

Sally Field

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.

James Gimpel

He hasn't spent that much because he hasn't raised that much.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

Diablo Cody

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Austin Stowell

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.

Dave Wannstedt

It's what we've talked about for two months; it's a roller coaster, things go up and down,

George Papandreou

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

Henry F. Ashurst

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

Jon Huertas

I don't really like roller coasters!

Robert Fulghum

Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?

Kevin Hart

Really, I don't like roller coasters.

Rush Limbaugh

I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Roger Staubach

I would have sworn that Indianapolis was going to go all the way. Now that Pittsburgh's in there, I think Seattle has got a shot at them.

Victoria Gonzales

We're pretty much in the driver's seat for second place now.

Teddy Atlas

Seattle doesn't look like an underdog to me.

Lyle Lovett

A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.

Nicolas Berggruen

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

Bruce Johnston

There are not enough seats in the steel lifeboat for everybody.

Jon Favreau

We're trying to find a seat on the bus.

Bob Hill

To me, Seattle has always been a cornerstone of the NBA. It would be shame if the team had to leave.