Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Peirsol

I have dedicated my life to promoting this and I now have that opportunity. I have been blessed and I want to share my experiences with as many swimmers as possible.

He was a real man, a person of the community. We could relate to him. You could see him walking down the street or sitting in a coffee shop or breaking away so he could go have a cigarette. I feel blessed to have been able to share that, to do his work and to have him see my work.

William Shakespeare

He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

This was one of the goals that we set for the season. God has just blessed us with the opportunity to come.

What makes me so special? You say you're blessed because you have perfect children, and what does that make me? But more than anything, when you know God and you know His character and you know His role in pain and suffering, you have to face the thing.

George Shinn

The people in Oklahoma City ... have stepped up and proved to the whole world that they are a major-league city. We are very blessed to be here, very fortunate to be here. We're looking forward to next year with a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of excitement.

Aimee Garcia

Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

Charles Kingsley

A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

Charles Babbage

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

Charles Spurgeon

When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name

Charles Spurgeon

Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

Charles Spurgeon

It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language, and your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord, so that your blood is Bibline and the very essence of the Bible flows from you.

Charles Spurgeon

Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.

Charles Spurgeon

We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God.

Atticus Shaffer

I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.

Benigno Aquino III

The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.

Benjamin Disraeli

Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.

Bryant H. McGill

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

Bryant H. McGill

You will be blessed the moment you realize you already are.

Alain de Botton

The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to be nothing next to the grandeur of the universe. We, more blessed in our gadgetry but less humble in our outlook, have been left ... having no more compelling repository of veneration than our brilliant, precise, blinkered and morally troubling fellow human beings.

Alain de Botton

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.

Jane Austen

Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his MAKING friends--whether he may be equally capable of RETAINING them, is less certain.

May all nurture their children and grand children properly and be blessed with 100 years of healthy life.

May you be blessed with that benediction which transcends worldly happiness, and may scholars show you the path !

May we be blessed with the wealth of maximum capabilities. May we be blessed by the sermon of divine knowledge leading to our progress.

One of the things I'm blessed with is that I can go 10-11 deep. I'm able to rotate speed in there and keep speed. That was a big factor tonight.

Of course he has talent as well. He is blessed with good physical qualities to be a great wrestler. You get that, coupled with his drive to succeed, and it is a good combination to reach where he has.

No one has given up. Everyone is pitching in. We are blessed to have an incredibly giving community with an incredible volunteer base.

One who talks sweet does not have an enemy and is blessed with plentiful of wealth and good fortune.

One who knows thyself perfectly is blessed with enthusiasm without which success is impossible.

One who is blessed by the Lord s Glance of Grace obtains this, and is judged to be True in the Court of the Lord.

Eli Broad

My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren't empire builders.