Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roberto Cavalli

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

Robertson Davies

As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of what is cautious, calculating, and priggish--about half of our social conscience, indeed. Both of them permit us, in blessed moments of revelation, to soar above the common level of our lives.

Robert Southey

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

Robert Penn Warren

Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's globe except what's under water, and that's dirt too. It's dirt makes the grass grow. A diamond ain't a thing in the world but a piece of dirt that got awful hot. And God-a-Mighty picked up a handful of dirt and blew on it and made you and me and George Washington and mankind blessed in faculty and apprehension. It all depends on what you do with the dirt. That right?

I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?

Ving Rhames

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

Willard Gaylin

Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.

Will Smith

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

Wayne Dyer

I greet every new day with the words, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' That's the state of mind that directs me, fulfills me, and sends me out into the world with a gift to share. It's a blessing that I have learned over a lifetime - to experience the presence of Spirit in most of my waking moments. It's a feeling of contentment and satisfaction, of peace and love.

Walter Annenberg

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Virginia Woolf

O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the trees and rivers which alone can keep one cool and childlike in the midst of the troubles of the world!

Virginia Woolf

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

William Beveridge

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

Samuel Smiles

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

Samuel Beckett

What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come

Salvatore Ferragamo

I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard.

Salma Hayek

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

Whitney Houston

I feel so blessed to just have done what I had done. To be able to just use what God has given me is a blessing. You know, never mind the Grammys, never mind the records, never mind all of that. Just to be able to sing.

W. S. Gilbert

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

W. H. Auden

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.

William Congreve

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

William Cowper

Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head

Wayne Gretzky

By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.

Wayne Dyer

Everything that happens to us has a blessing built into it.

Tony Shalhoub

I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise.

Van Jones

People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which we would be foolish to waste; therefore conservation and efficiency are values we all can share.

Twyla Tharp

Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.

Vladimir Putin

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

William Ames

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

William Arthur Ward

We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.

William Arthur Ward

Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.

Stella Benson

Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.