Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas a Kempis

Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.

Sam Claflin

In fact I've been rather blessed with roles in my career that really alter my actual look. I've never looked the same in any film I've done.

Ryan Guzman

I'm very appreciative, I'm feeling very blessed and I like to live in the moment so any person I meet, I start to leave my mark. As far as my work goes, I just hope that people like it when I do it. I certainly give my best and try to learn as much as I can while I'm working or studying for a role.

Ronald Reagan

Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are still blessed with heroes like those of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Man will continue his conquest of space. To reach out for new goals and ever-greater achievements, that is the way we shall commemorate our seven Challenger heroes.

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?

Robert M. Pirsig

Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention.

Robert M. Pirsig

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

Tom Hanks

The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.

Toby Jones

We're blessed with, as we were on Harry Potter, lead actors who are amazingly grounded people.

Sam Houston

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!

Russell M. Nelson

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Ron Perlman

I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.

Susan Sarandon

One night I looked down and my rosary beads were glowing. And I realized that I did not want to see the blessed Virgin - I was terrified.

Susan Sarandon

When I grew up in the church, we were praying because the Communists were going to come over and hang you upside down on a cross, and I so wanted to be a good person, and I had these rosary beads that I would sleep with every night, and I just wanted the blessed Virgin to be on my side.

Sukhwinder Singh

I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.

Swami Vivekananda

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

Swami Vivekananda

The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments

Tony Bennett

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

Tom Petty

Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed.

Simon Rex

I've been very luckily - I bought a house, I work, my life's been very blessed. I thought it would be funny to exaggerate the non-working side.

Thomas Carlyle

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

Thomas Carlyle

It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

Tony Campolo

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

Tom Sizemore

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

Spike Milligan

Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light

Spike Lee

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

Shirley Temple

I've been so blessed. If someone asked me whom I would choose to be if I could come back in another life, I would have to say Shirley Temple Black. I cannot think of a more interesting life to ask for.

Reese Witherspoon

Obviously, this isn't the time in my life that I would have chosen to do this, but I feel like life gives you these challenges for a reason. I feel so happy and glad to be in the place that I am. I really feel blessed. This is something I need to face and take control of.

Swami Vivekananda

Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

Robert A. Heinlein

First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.

Ringo Starr

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.