I was lucky. I spent almost 12 years in Portland and came to Houston for the last 3 12 years, which was a nice. But when you can spend your hold career with one team, that's a blessing.
Blessings Quotes (711 Quotes)
If why is the question, then I have the answer For the blessing and not for the curse For satisfaction and not for hunger For life and not for death For truth, compassion, and justice.
It's a blessing. It's an honor to be an All- Star and I'm really happy that Commissioner (David Stern) has chosen me. I'm excited and honored to be picked among the best players in the game, and I'm looking forward to representing my teammates and coaches and this entire organization at the All-Star Game.
We always fought for our own individuality, and this has actually been a kind of blessing. I think had we both been gay or both been straight, there might have been some competition and tension where our romantic partners were concerned.
The British government believes we must be resolved to disarming Saddam Hussein. It must be done before the terror weapons he possesses can be used by Saddam himself or by others with his blessing. We must steel ourselves to the consequences of that resolve and send a clear message to Saddam Hussein You cannot win. You can only comply and disarm or be defeated. The choice is entirely yours.
So that helped me know how to deal with the situation. It was just a blessing from God that I was here.
It's a blessing to be able to play college football and not guessing how fast you have to run in the 40 drills or whether you were good enough in the shuttle drills, having guys poking at you.
I hereby authorize the Washington Redskins to use any means necessary to wiretap and eavesdrop on any Giants' conversations, meetings, andor game planning sessions. And if they feel compelled to torture an equipment manager or secretary to obtain the necessary information, then they have my blessing.
I can't even tell you how many times we both talked about this about starting an NFL season together, ... We had bunk beds in our bedroom, and we'd stay up and tell each other how we would make it. It's a blessing.
Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity
I am convinced, the longer I live, that life its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.
It's a blessing, ... I'm looking forward to not having a winter where I'm trying to figure where I'm going to be. I'm excited that I will be here unless they trade me. We've got a lot of pieces in place.
Last year was like a blessing being able to work on things in Hamilton without the pressure of being in Montreal. Now, I just want to make the team and get as much playing time as I can.
He's harder on me than anybody else. If I'm not doing something right, he tells me and takes it personally. Having him around has really been a blessing and I'm thankful to have him in my corner.
Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live...
I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.
I've always felt that the Travel Channel is a blessing and a detriment for the 'World Poker Tour', ... It looked like the 'Professional Poker Tour' could have gone to ESPN and that would have been big.
Sow Carrots in your Gardens, and humbly praise God for them, as for a singular and great blessing.
He established the many worlds and skies. The soul is illumined with His Light no one can revoke His Blessing. Meditate, meditate in remembrance on God, and become fearless.
We will never forget that blessing. It was the most pained and moving blessing, which left us with the extreme testimony of his will to complete his ministry until the end.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Dirks pitched really well. He always goes out and gives you a good outing, but that rest may have helped him a bit. I thought he had more fastball and more life on his breaking ball than he did his last two outings. Maybe that was a blessing in disguise.
It's a blessing for something to finally start happening for us. (The process) was pretty smooth.
The Quarter is going to be fine. The entire city is going to be a much better place. People have been living in poverty for generations. They don't know any better. They got into a rut, like a bad marriage, and needed to have a light shined on it. ... Truly, I think this is going to be a blessing for some of them.
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place
I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women. It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcomings of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
Cell phones are not working, land lines are not working, so communication is almost by word of mouth, ... It's a blessing in disguise because people have started communicating with each other in a way that we used to a long time ago. 'Have you seen so and so' 'Yes, I saw so and so yesterday at this place. They were at the Home Depot trying to get ice and water.' So you know that family is OK.
This team seems to play better on the road. This might be a blessing.
Surely, in the work of the Lord, it is what we do after we think we have done enough that really counts with him, for thats when the blessings flow.
Frst of all that I would crave as the richest of heaven's blessings would be wisdom from my Heavenly Father bestowed daily.
We believe that atomic energy is a blessing given by God, ... It's an opportunity. It is a clean energy. It is a healthy energy.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
As long as you have the blessing of your parents it does not matter even if you live in the mountains.
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation
Conception is a blessing, but not
as your daughter may conceive.
Humanity has already entered a new phase of its history. I entered the age of Democracy. Let us wish and let us hope that all men on this earth will enjoy the blessing of freedom, and that when they attain it they will make prudent use of it.
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
You could have an experience with the gift of the Holy Ghost today. You could begin a private prayer with thanks. You could start to count your blessings, and then pause for a moment. If you exercise faith, and with the gift of the Holy Ghost, you will find that memories of other blessings will flood into your mind. If you begin to express gratitude for each of them, your prayer may take a little longer than usual. Remembrance will come. And so will gratitude. You could try the same thing as you write an entry in your book of remembrance. The Holy Ghost has helped with that since the beginning of time. You remember in the record of Moses it says 'And a book of remembrance was kept, in the which was recorded, in the language of Adam, for it was given unto as many as called upon God to write by the spirit of inspiration.' (Moses 65.)
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well whose branches run over the wall The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel) Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.
I had the blessing or curse to be born into an activist family. My mom and dad were into the protests way before I was born. And once I was born, they raised me in that activist environment.
I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
The first of earthly blessings, independence.
Rain falls for good guys and bad guys. Rain could be a blessing, but could also be a disaster. Probability of a 'good luck' or 'shit happened' to the bad guys is 50. Same applies to the good guys.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
It was just a blessing to be able to get out there and play in the championship game. It was awesome. I don't even know what to say.
This is not just the Pope's blessing. He's giving the blessing for God.