Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Anderson

When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish my blessings.

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry

Todd Wagner

We can make a movie, put it on our TV stations, put it in our own theaters, and we didn't need anybody's blessing to do that.

He will give his blessing to the whole of Brazil.

He had to be hungry. And I look over, and he's saying the blessing before he eats.

He is a blessing to me, ... All these people, these ones who were once strangers (from Alabama), they are blessings to us.

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,

Alexander Hamilton

A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which without being oppressive, will be a spur to industry;

Alexander Hamilton

There are respectable individuals, who from a just aversion to an accumulation of Public debt, are unwilling to concede to it any kind of utility, who can discern no good to alleviate the ill with which they suppose it pregnant; who cannot be persuaded that it ought in any sense to be viewed as an increase of capital lest it should be inferred, that the more debt the more capital, the greater the burthens the greater the blessings of the community.

Adolf Hitler

...we must pray to the Almighty not to refuse His blessing to this change and not to abandon our people in the times to come.

Adolf Hitler

In vowing ourselves to one another, we are entitled to stand before the Almighty and ask Him for His grace and His blessing.

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

Anish Kapoor

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

Amy Poehler

Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success...when you can wish good things for people and rejoice when they get it, so many gifts and blessings come to you that you can't even imagine.

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.

Don Davis

Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

Dale Carnegie

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

Damian Marley

We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.

Dustin Hoffman

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

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.

Anthony de Mello

This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.

Alice Munro

She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.

Anne Lamott

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

Debbie Reynolds

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.