Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas S. Monson

When you’re on the Lord’s errand, you’re entitled to the Lord’s blessings.

Thomas S. Monson

When we encounter challenges and problems in our lives, it is often difficult for us to focus on our blessings. However, if we reach deep enough and look hard enough, we will be able to feel and recognize just how much we have been given.

Saul Bellow

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Sandra Bullock

I'm one of those people who knows how lucky she is. And every day, I look around the house, and I count my blessings. They're all there under that roof.

Roger Waters

...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden.

Robert Sheckley

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.

Robert Rankin

It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.

Sasha Azevedo

It's amazing the life that I?m living today, and I count my blessings every day for the gifts that God has given me.

Richard M. Nixon

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Rebecca Mader

It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

Samuel Johnson

Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind, for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. To look up to the sky for the nutriment of our bodies, is the condition of nature; to call upon the sun for peace and gaiety, or deprecate the clouds lest sorrow should overwhelm us, is the cowardice of idleness, and the idolatry of folly.

Samuel Johnson

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.

Samuel Johnson

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Ruhollah Khomeini

Should one permit an infidel to continue in his role as a Corrupter of the Earth, the moral suffering of the infidel will be all the worse. Should one kill the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.

Rocco DiSpirito

At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.

Roberto Cavalli

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?

Wayne Dyer

I greet every new day with the words, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' That's the state of mind that directs me, fulfills me, and sends me out into the world with a gift to share. It's a blessing that I have learned over a lifetime - to experience the presence of Spirit in most of my waking moments. It's a feeling of contentment and satisfaction, of peace and love.

Walter Annenberg

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Virginia Woolf

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

William Beveridge

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

Samuel Smiles

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

William Congreve

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

William Cowper

Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head

Wayne Dyer

Everything that happens to us has a blessing built into it.

Tony Shalhoub

I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise.

Twyla Tharp

Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.

Vladimir Putin

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

William Ames

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

William Arthur Ward

We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.

Tim Tebow

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

Thomas Jefferson

A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions. But should even this be counteracted by violence on the right of expatriation, the other branch of our example then presents itself for imitation: to rise on their rulers and do as we have done.

Thomas Goodwin

We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.