Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Haney

I know that God gave me the blessing to use, to bring honor and glory to Him, and to use to impact the lives of people.

Terry Pratchett

Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.

Terri Blackstock

...every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.

Terrence McNally

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.

Teena Marie

You never know where a blessing can come from.

Randall Terry

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

Lewis Mumford

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.

Leslie Banks

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

Marcus Garvey

Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South, East and West. And then we you have wrought well, you will have merited God's blessing, you will become God's chosen people and naturally you'll become leaders of the world.

Thomas a Kempis

Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.

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?

Walt Disney

Here in Florida we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland - the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.

Virginia Satir

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better . . . if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter.

Saul Bellow

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

Tim Ferriss

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

Russell M. Nelson

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

Rumi

I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing

Rumi

Every step I take is a blessing.

Roy H. Williams

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

Taylor Swift

You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing.

Talib Kweli

The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.

Tony Robbins

I'm going to make my life everyday about being a blessing in people's lives. If I'm a blessing to people's lives, then there will be nothing to worry about again.

Thomas Merton

The primordial blessing, 'increase and multiply', has suddenly become a hemorrhage of terror. We are numbered in billions, and massed together, marshalled, numbered, marched here and there, taxed, drilled, armed, worked to the point of insensibility, dazed by information, drugged by entertainment, surfeited with everything, nauseated with the human race and with ourselves, nauseated with life.

Tony Campolo

The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

Stendhal

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.