Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.

Edgar Allan Poe

In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend

Coaching at Stanford was a dream come true for me, ... It was everything that I could have dreamed possible. There were so many thrills and wonderful experiences, and so few disappointments. I consider myself blessed to have been able to be in my position at Stanford for 17 years and to have been a collegiate swimming head coach for 29.

And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered themselves to dwell at Jerusalem.

And that's what all the blessed evil's for.

An egotist can never be humble that is why he is seldom blessed even by god.

A religious person, who spends his time in devotion and worship gets blessed with happiness and prosperity.

Tom Kite

On top of all that, I'm a blessed man. I truly am.

Jim Tressel

There's something special about this Fiesta Bowl, there's no question about it. Why we've been so blessed here I have no idea.

Gerry McNamara

Seeing other people and the situations they're in, it makes you realize how blessed you are and how fortunate you are. It's important for us to help out.

Right now, we're blessed to have two players at each position.

Emeril Lagasse

As I spent a couple of days there, I realized how blessed I am, but you realize what still is going on in the pockets of this country that we don't know about. To say these kids are 'at risk' is an understatement. They have parents who are on drugs, shot, in jail,

This being my first year, I was blessed to have a team like this. They are the greatest girls in the world. They worked together and made life pleasurable for me in my first year coaching here. In my 27 years of coaching, this was my most enjoyable year.

They've focused on the work; the teachers took ownership of the challenge and are meeting it, ... I'm just so blessed with this faculty and staff.

A lot of my success has come from being blessed by God for my talent. A lot of my coaching has gotten me to where I am. Everybody can work harder. I put in a lot of time and a lot of summers. If it's something you really want, you should go for it. Have some fun, but you have to work hard. It will pay off.

All of our games are like that. But this is a group that is blessed with great resolve.

A lot of people were telling us to not expect too much. We've been blessed to be able to get that spot.

Larry Brown

You're not always blessed with a roster that's what you truly wanted,

Ayad Allawi

Your blessed gathering here is a challenge to the forces of evil and tyranny that want to destroy this country.

They are blessed with peace, celestial bliss, tranquility and ecstasy; chanting and meditating, they live in supreme bliss.

Larry Brown

You don't get to the position I've been able to get to without a lot of help from other people. I've been blessed with the players I've had the privilege to coach and the coaches who taught me, I know when something happens for me those people are happier than me.

It's just an intriguing saga this country has been blessed with.

It's just been one of those blessed shoots where everything worked and everything worked smoothly.

It's a relief. Finally. I'm glad, excited, blessed and honored and ready to play some football.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I see a wonderful future in a very uncertain world. If we will cling to our values, if we will build on our inheritance, if we will walk in obedience before the Lord, if we will simply live the gospel we will be blessed in a magnificent and wonderful way. We will be looked upon as a peculiar people who have found the key to a peculiar happiness.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There are others whose lives are blessed when a missionary serves, such as the members of his family who support him, pray for him, and try to live worthy of him.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed; life will be better for you.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Constitution under which we live and which has not only blessed us but has become a model for other constitutions, is our God-inspired national safeguard ensuring freedom and liberty, justice and equality before the law.

Giuseppe Verdi

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

Henry David Thoreau

Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

Henry David Thoreau

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.