Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Smith

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.

Joseph Conrad

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Josh Turner

I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.

Kate Millett

one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.

Leonard Cohen

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

Leighton Meester

I've been so blessed to work with the people I have.

Laz Alonso

I've been very blessed to work in some films that I'm very proud of.

Laz Alonso

Being able to travel and see the world really makes me appreciate the blessings in my life. There are so many people that will never get a chance to see some of the things that I've seen during my travels. I'll never take that for granted.

Lawrence Welk

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

Laura Vandervoort

Originally, when I got the role of Lisa [from Visitors], I was a little concerned, because I was worried I would be typecast as an alien for the rest of my life. But they are so, so different that it wasn't at all a problem. I'm very lucky. I'm blessed to be on another show. I think it's going to do really well.

Laura Z. Hobson

We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed -- these are corruptions.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.

L. Lionel Kendrick

We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.

L. Lionel Kendrick

The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.

Harlan Coben

When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

Greg Berlanti

You want to go to a place where you work every day, where you get to tell stories that look and feel like the audience in America that are watching. You're really limited, if you walk into a room and you can just tell stories about that. So, we've been really blessed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

John Lyly

Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.

John Lubbock

Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

John Lubbock

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

John Lancaster Spalding

The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.

John C. McGinley

I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

John C. Calhoun

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

John C. Calhoun

Of all earthly blessings, I place Liberty in the first rank, and of course, consider the obligation to defend and preserve it, as the most sacred of all our civil and social duties... It is not in the power of any single, or few individuals to preserve liberty. It can only be effected by the people themselves; by their intelligence, virtue, courage, and patriotism.

Brandon Moore

The kindness and generosity you have shown to our family at this time of such devastation and destruction is overwhelming, ... We have been blessed to have such large-hearted people and families showing so much support. Your kindness to strangers has literally brought us to our knees.

I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

Francois Fenelon

Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.

Francois Fenelon

We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

Francois Fenelon

People who have no secrets from each other never want for a subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back, neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of their heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

John Keble

Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.