Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allan Bloom

Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to the university, and I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can in turn be a blessing to society.

Jerry Johnson

We are just trying to be a blessing to the community. We know a lot of people lost a lot during the last two hurricanes,

Heber J. Grant

A Mormon knows that the promises of God are true, and He said that all will be tried; realizing these things the Latter-day Saints will acknowledge their Maker not only in blessings but also in tribulations.

Alex Campbell

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.

Albrecht Durer

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

Albert Einstein

Working on the final formulation of technological patents was a veritable blessing for me. It enforced many-sided thinking and also provided important stimuli to physical thought. [Academia] places a young person under a kind of compulsion to produce impressive quantities of scientific publications; a temptation to superficiality.

Albert Einstein

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing.

Abigail Adams

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

A. P. Herbert

A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

Abbas Kiarostami

I have received the digital camera as a blessing. It has really changed my life as a filmmaker, because I don't use my camera anymore as a camera. I don't feel it as a camera. I feel it as a friend, as something that doesn't make an impression on people, that doesn't make them feel uncomfortable, and that is completely forgotten in my way of approaching life and people and film.

Adrian Rogers

You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.

Valerie Azlynn

There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.

O. Henry

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles

Jordan Farmar

Right after that game I said, I hope this will be a blessing in disguise and we can start something special down the stretch and I think it really did.

Peter was not looked upon as an unmitigated blessing in the early '80s,

Michael Adams

I was a throw-in. I didn't even know if I was going to make the team. But it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I got a chance to play and be an integral part of that team.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness come through your door.

May your days be many and your troubles be few. May all God's blessings descend upon you. May peace be within you may your heart be strong. May you find what you're seeking wherever you roam.

May you have love that never ends, lots of money and lots of friends. Health be yours, whatever you do and may God send many blessings to you.

May St. Patrick guard you wherever you go, and guide you in whatever you do and may his loving protection be a blessing to you always.

One who dies today takes rebirth because of the blessings of Lord Indra.

Jane Addams

The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.

Jane Austen

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

Bernard Cornwell

I'm a success inasmuch that I enjoy my life, which is an enormous blessing and that doesn't depend on commercial success (though I wouldn't be such a fool as to deny that it helps).

Bob Johnson

My dream is to get to the point where we won't have to buy anything. All will be donated. We got to that point in Indianapolis. It would really be a blessing if we can get there.

Maybe those (losses) are a blessing in disguise because they have to work harder.

Getting to meet people down there was my favorite part. I was able to help people carry groceries to and from the store or take care of children. That was one of the blessings I received.

Four blessings upon you - Older whiskey - Younger women - Faster horses - More money

I couldn't have hoped for anything better. This has been a true blessing to have all these students here and have everyone co-operating.

Sonny Perdue

I came to say thanks to these troops and they gave me a blessing I'll never forget,

Bryant H. McGill

To have our needs met, to love, to be loved, to feel safe in this world and to each know our purpose, is a simple matter of creating those blessings for others.

Catherine Ponder

There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. We can experience that stasis is illusory and that reality is continual flux and change on very subtle and also on gross levels of perception . . . When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

Catherine Ponder

When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.