Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Ford Coppola

I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.

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.

Francis Chan

Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.

Francine Rivers

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

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I've truly been blessed. I've taken my time, kept my eye on the prize and done what I've had to do. So I'm able to make a choice when to retire. Most fighters really couldn't.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the limit.

George Washington

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes.

George Washington

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

George Washington

Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our blessed religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.

George Santayana

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

George Meredith

God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

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.

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.

George Eliot

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.

Christian Camargo

Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one.

Chris Hayes

Chris Christie travelled to Ft. Worth, Texas, to give his blessing to a former rival who one week ago was approvingly discussing killing Muslim terrorists with bullets smeared in pig`s blood.

George Strait

I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.

George Takei

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

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.

I do and I must reverence human nature. I bless it for its kind affections. I honor it for its achievements in science and art, and still more for its examples of heroic and saintly virtue. These are marks of a divine origin and the pledges of a celestial inheritance; and I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.

I do know that my experience thus far at Haggard has validated my choice to go into teaching. I consider myself to be blessed to be working with such great students and staff.

Come and meet me, O Life of the World, my Beloved. Please bless me with Your Mercy, and enshrine Your Name, Har, Har, within my mind.

Huston Smith

'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves.

Hudson Taylor

The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become.

Howard Stern

I feel blessed, I really feel fulfilled.

Ice Cube

Well, for the transition from rapper to actor, I was fortunate that director John Singleton pursued me for about two years to be in Boyz 'N the Hood. I really wasn't even thinking about acting at the time, since I was singularly focused on being the best rapper in the world. So, that was really a blessing, because I wasn't really taking him seriously.

Bob Arum

He can do what he wants. I know there are some fighters disaffected with King. If he can put together a tournament, God bless him. But remember, he has to put Ruiz in that tournament.

Governor Romney has come to know Archbishop O'Malley as a humble man of God and as a strong leader. His new responsibility is a tribute to him and a blessing to the commonwealth and the governor looks forward to joining him in Rome for this happy occasion.

Irene Cara

It's important for me to get back to my fans here and around the world. I feel very, very blessed that so many people have continued to write me and to pour out their love for me and my work.

Immanuel Kant

The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.