Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurence Sterne

Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.

The energy around it is really inspiring me. I've already felt that. There's been some really great blessings that have come my way, so, it must be true.

Henry Rollins

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

Henry B. Eyring

Ask yourself, 'How did God bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings.

Henry B. Eyring

We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.

Henry B. Eyring

The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

Henry B. Eyring

Those who are faithful to God are protected and prospered. That comes as the result of serving God and keeping His commandments. But with those blessings comes the temptation to forget their source. It is easy to begin to feel the blessings were granted not by a loving God on whom we depend but by our own powers.

Heber J. Grant

In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families.

Hedy Lamarr

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

Manly Hall

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

John Adams

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

John Adams

The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part will require a purification from our vices, and an augmentation of our virtues, or there will be no blessings.

The children just love getting to paint. It is a blessing to see the progress the children have made and to see them having so much fun doing this.

The children go home and start correcting their parents and then the parents don't know if it's a blessing or a curse.

All children are special. But she's really, really special. She's taught us about life and what's important about life. It's a blessing God's given her to us.

Eric Berry

That is the biggest part I like about the game, the camaraderie. Just seeing how it translates on the field, a lot of those guys helped me out throughout my process and just seeing them and being out there with them is definitely a blessing.

Lauryn Williams

The first world (best) is exciting, especially when it comes as a surprise. Sometimes you get on the track and you know that you've been running close to a world record and then it doesn't happen. Today is like an extra blessing and it was a really nice thing to happen.

James F. Cooper

One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is any problem in the world today -- social, political, or economic -- that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount.

Joko Beck

We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

Lord Chesterfield

Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings.

Luther Burbank

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

You can write whatever you want, but that game was exactly what it was. That's how we played. This is probably a blessing in disguise, for us to get it out of our system.

I was very fortunate to be raised with an 'if not you, then who?' mentality, and I count my blessings every day to have the support of my family and especially my wife. She's got a front-row seat on the roller coaster.

These guys keep me young, ... Any time you can see a young man grow up to be an old vet, it's always a blessing because you always talk about, 'I remember when the game was so fast for you. ...'

I told everyone to treat this like your senior year because you don't know what next year will bring. To be in this situation and have this opportunity is a real blessing for us all.

It'll be a part of who they are and what they do as citizens. What a blessing it is to be able to give back.

This is not just the Pope's blessing. He's giving the blessing for God.

This is something I'll present to the board and they will either give their blessing or not.

Stephen Mitchell

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

Ray LaMontagne

I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

Raoul Vaneigem

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Randy Alcorn

In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.