Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Washington Irving

I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

William Ralph Inge

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Will Carleton

Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!

William Jackson

It seems after the disaster many good things and blessings happen,.

Winston Churchill

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

William Weld

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

William Wordsworth

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

William Wordsworth

It is the 1st mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before... there is a blessing in the air.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Take another look at your life. Give thanks. Accept your circumstances. Give thanks. Count your blessings. Give thanks. Show up for each day's meditation. Be willing to give the basic tools a fair chance. They can help you find your way.