It’s a blessing to stay a child all your life – pretend to be this and that. And get paid for it.
It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.
If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
He had a face like a blessing.
The responsibility and the blessing in many ways of a Sunday show is being able to step back and give context.
I have loved Jesus my whole life, and it has been such a privilege for me. To be able to marry my work and God together has been such a blessing.
I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‘Oh my God, what a blessing.’ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.
It is difficult to be that band that doesn’t do things the way other bands do it. It’s a blessing and a curse.
It’s just a dream come true. I can’t believe I’m standing here with a Miami Heat hat on, walking across the stage. It’s a blessing.
What I hated then – and hate now – is the way that people say to girls like me who get pregnant young that it ruins your life. Having a child doesn’t ruin your life – having a child is a blessing.
I think it’s an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.
I’m not turning my back on music anytime soon, but it’s just a blessing to have options open. A lot of artists just have rap, and that’s it. But once rap stops, it’s hard to get into that Hollywood circle; it really is. It’s a whole ‘nother beast that people think they’re ready for, but they’re really not.
Abraham was extremely wealthy and he had a covenant with God. It’s not the Jewish blessing, it’s the Abrahamic blessing. I get excited talking about it ’cause I love it and I started out deep in debt with nothing. I had to learn this from the Bible and from my spiritual mentor Oral Roberts.
What I’ve learned is that you forget that it’s not only a blessing to play this game, but it’s an opportunity.
Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways, it’s a blessing. It makes them cautious.
To me, life is a gift, and it’s a blessing to just be alive. And each person should learn what a gift it is to be alive no matter how tough things get.
I feel that losing both my legs was a blessing. It was meant to happen to me: I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to touch so many lives in such a positive way.
I could have never had any kind of creative freedom on TV, so then I did movies! Now, I am able to do all kinds of entertainment… and that, I feel, is the biggest blessing!
If you tell God no because He won’t explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.
In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.
I’m just so grateful I had a wonderful surrogate who carried our two children. I have two amazing angels in my life that I love so much. They are such a gift and a blessing from God.
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
If I wasn’t plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.
Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects – television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving – is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as I don’t have a sponsor or financial help from my federation.
When I got to jail, it was a blessing in disguise because it made me reevaluate and check who I am as a person.
To be able to come back to Nigeria and get so much love for my work is my biggest life blessing. I’ve always hoped to never get lost in translation with me being British-born.
Before I go to bed, I thank God for blessing me with all the things he blessed me with, and for my family to be safe.
After 2012, I’m pretty much out of the media and entertainment business. But yes, I was the outsider and no, it wasn’t a handicap. To me, it was a blessing in disguise.
Of course, being the synagogue president, for me it was a great blessing.
In my early twenties, I got the basics covered. In retrospect, one of the great things about success is that I never really had to work in a factory full-time. So that’s a blessing.
There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.
Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.
The interesting thing about a lot of serialized television is that it’s a blessing and curse.
The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.
Kids don’t come with instruction manuals. It’s interesting, but after you have your kids, it’s a blessing. It’s not as hard as people may think it is.
You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it’s a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room ‘who said that’, or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.
In college I was so mad I wasn’t playing. The two guys in front of me were Billy Volek and David Carr, but I just realized that was a blessing in disguise, that I was so bad and I never played, so my brain’s good.
I think it’s such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it’s so worth it, and it’s such an unbelievable time – you have someone growing inside of you!
I can multitask like crazy. I’m riddled with ADD – a blessing and a curse.
If I’m able to get drafted by the New York Knicks, it would be a blessing.
I think one of the coolest things, really a blessing of being in the league, is just being able to travel so much. You’re fortunate that you don’t have to pay for the traveling usually or anything like that.
It’s never too late. Don’t focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.
The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone’s attention. They want to hear what the guy from ‘Con Air’ and ‘Desperado’ has to say.
It’s a blessing as an artist to express myself – whether that be via dance, via song or via speech – in so many different ways.
It’s been one heck of a ride. I came into the league playing with Kobe and Shaq and for Phil Jackson. Playing with Jordan. And so, it just has been a blessing. I can’t describe it any other way.
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
For me, I am not a fan of any of my own matches, and it’s both a blessing and a curse. Because I’m never satisfied, I’m always looking to improve in every area.
The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains – the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who’s in her presence is blessed to be there.
Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
I’ve always had a saying, ‘Change is good.’ I don’t shy away from it, I embrace it. Make the most out of everything. Sometimes change is a blessing in disguise.
I’m not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper. It’s just been such a blessing for me my whole life to get my feelings out there in a positive way.
It’s an honor and a blessing to be part of ‘R.B.I. Baseball.’
I think that it’s such a blessing to be able to act for a living. I can’t imagine a better job. I’ve had a lot of other jobs, and I’m really, really glad that I get to do this one.
High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.
I’ve never felt like I’ve exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra late bloomer, and my mom would say it was a blessing because it means you never have to wonder if guys are only interested in you because you’ve got boobs.
I think as I’ve gotten older I think it was a blessing that I didn’t get a record deal until my late 20s because I think it allowed me to really grow up as Carly not as Carly Pearce.
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
