Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tasha Smith

That's just part of the blessing of being an actor: you get to learn so many things about life.

Stephen Mitchell

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

Stanley Kunitz

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

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.

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 Jefferson

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

Tom Selleck

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

Tim Ferriss

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

Swami Vivekananda

May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.

Rollo May

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Rumi

Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.

Rumi

Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives.

Tom Robbins

Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

Tom Freston

People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks.

Steve Harvey

There's no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.

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.

Richard Simmons

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There's no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

T. D. Jakes

It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life,

T. D. Jakes

You can't just be a recipient of a blessing, you have to do something to make it happen.

T. D. Jakes

Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.

T. D. Jakes

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

Joseph Kosinski

An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that you can pick up with and continue on with but then you have a lot of people out there who haven't seen the first and might feel like this isn't a movie for them because of that.

Kofi Annan

It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.

Kevin Hart

My road to success was a long road to success was a long road. You get out of something what you put into it. I put blood, sweat and tears into stand-up comedy and the entertainment realm in general. For me to just know be coming around is a blessing. It's a blessing and it's an honor. It makes me say I can get more and I can do more.