Quotation Explorer - 'Thanks'

Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'. - Craig Ferguson
Encouragement from any source is like a drop of rain upon a parched desert. Thanks to all the many others who rained on me when I needed it, and even when I foolishly thought I didn't.(acknowledgements in The P.U.R.E.) - Claire Gillian
Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don’t wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belong to the wisdom! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The act of praising and giving thanks to God brings untold blessing. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When you start with thanksgiving, you will always end with praise. Be thankful, it grows. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
You want to become a better person?Just give thanks. Give thanks for all of it. - Kamand Kojouri
What is it about the Heavens that draws us to look up? For generations, centuries, (millennia?) it seems we are drawn to look up for answers, comfort in times of despair, with pleas for help, when we are in need of grace, and to give thanks. - Bella Vespira
Ingratitude to God does not rely only on our refusal to give the verbal thanksgiving due to Him, but also recides in our inability to appreciate his gifts and potentials in us by leaving them untapped. - Israelmore Ayivor
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful. - Israelmore Ayivor
Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night. - Irving Berlin
Thanks cows. I appreciate your tastiness. - Craig Ferguson
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. - Epictetus
All that we have and don't have is a grace. Even the awareness of grace is a grace in which we should give thanks." - Mac MacKenzie
Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people may not even have one of those things you consider precious to you (love, family, friends etc). Each day give thanks for the gift of life.You are blessed - Pablo
Putting aside your blatant patriarchal biases in assuming the necessary presence of a male familial figurehead, yes, I had a nice brunch, thanks. - Julie James
No matter how big or small the service is, Always express your Thanks to the person who served you. - Mohith Agadi
Next time someone tells you to smile for the camera, & you don’t feel like it—say no, thanks. Don’t fake your way into a happy-seeming life. Open vulnerable honesty is true positivity. - Waylon H. Lewis
For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. - Dag Hammarskjold
But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not be confused with escape. And take these poems along for good luck! - Robert Graves
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks of everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. - Brian Tracy
Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty. - Sunday Adelaja
Guy of Gisborne: I understand the king is winning, thanks be to God. Robin Hood: He’s killing more people.Gisborne: Is that not winning?Robin: Show me an argument ever settled with bloodshed, and then I’ll call it winning. - BBC Robin Hood
​"But you can thank God the Lord for His inconceivable goodness, which can be recognized daily and hourly throughout your entire existence, if only you honestly try! Your whole life shall therefore become a thanksgiving! - Abd-Ru-Shin
Give thanks to the earth for the hospitality and generosityShow gratitude for life, light and every little beauty. - Debasish Mridha
The truth therefore is that great nations become great not because of their amount of wealth an Great nations become great thanks to their wealth of truth, honesty and other virtues the natural resources. - Sunday Adelaja
So... what was the reason to don't be social!???...Oh, thanks Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution for reminding me. - Deyth Banger
I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans. - Carroll Bryant
Take a deep breathe and thanks for everything you have. - Sharfaraz Ahmed
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. - Jon Stewart
Sorry for the disaster. And thanks for your patience!
Grateful thanks to good friends, who lifted us, when we fall. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Thanks to President Obama, I am able to get medical treatment in the USA for the long term effects of very high altitude sickness and unnatural electromagnetic radiation exposures. - Steven Magee
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. - Aldous Huxley
Beautiful heart always thanks, appriciate and forgive people and enchance life. - Kishore Bansal
i Create. I don't "Need".Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism. Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks. - Jonathan Heatt
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. - W.J. Cameron
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. - Charles Kuralt
He who knows all the answers, but none of the questions is like a large gobbling bird on Thanksgiving. - Jayce O'Neal
Even if people say that I don't have a character still I am a well known character. Thanks to all such people for giving me at least some character to begin with. - Amit Abraham
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We belong to the 'Stardust Family'. Thanks to those initial stars who sacrificed their precious lives for us! We're STARDUST! ~ UNIVERSE LOVES YOU & SO DO I ‪#‎StardustAK‬ - Abhishek Kumar
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living, If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself. - Tecumseh
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. - Kurt Vonnegut
Some people insist on inviting me to their drama buffet... No thanks! My soul hungers for nourishment and growth; it doesn't lust for poison and depletion. - Steve Maraboli
‎"Based on a true story"? No, thanks. I prefer "based on a true imagination". - Enkelejd Lamaj
The more we express thanks, the more gratitude we feel. The more gratitude we feel, the more we express thanks. It's circular, and it leads to a happier life. - Steve Goodier
Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow - William Shakespeare
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are. - George Eliot
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. - Robert Wilensky
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine. - Thomas Jefferson
I never believed I will be the Breadwinner in my family, But I give Lord God Almighty Thanks! - Genereux Philip
Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me. - T. William Watts
Every day of life is a gift! Be sure to... unwrap it. Play with it. And, most importantly, give thanks for it! - Valerie Rickel
Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks. - Thomas Goodwin
A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry - that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three-Mile Island. - Johnny Carson
Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it. - Richelle E. Goodrich
On World Humanitarian Day 2014, thanks to ALL aid workers who carry or have carried out lifesaving work. Salute to our champions - Widad Akreyi
...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Thanks To Those People Who Give A Taste Of Right Ways. - - Zia Mustafa
Black Friday (AKA Zombie Apocalypse)Is an event of subset half-dead human like beings confronted with ravenous bloodthirsty monsters preparing to pummel down the doors mid-afternoon on Thanksgiving Day. - Sage R Fury
Cultivate and nurture being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. Remembering that In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. - Angie karan
We give thanks to God, who delivers us, from great distress. - Lailah Gifty Akita
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. - Unknown
Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed: No thanks. - Ellen Herman
There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin. - Craig Ferguson
Best of all is to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song. - Konrad von Gesner
Giving thanks fills you with light and joy so you can shine like the bright star you truly are. - Amy Leigh Mercree
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. - Erma Bombeck
A forced kindness deserves no thanks - Thomas Fuller
The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans. - Finley Peter Dunne
The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. - Gaylord Nelson
Today, I don't want to ask for anythingI just want to give thanks for Everything I already have. - Nikki Rowe
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.[Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1963] - John F. Kennedy
So often I'm like, No, thanks, to all of that stuff, just give me the room to exist both in the shit and stars . . . We have to fight to be understood as being distinct and incongruent. But I think it is worth fighting for. - Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. - Rita Rudner
The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage. - Karl Marx
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia. - H. L. Mencken
Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, "Hi. Thanks for writing me! - Alvi Syahrin
I never thought I am going to be so followed and to see my stuff and on some other places... so I want to say big Thanks to all. - Deyth Banger
Thanks God that he created me dumb and crazy enough to believe that I can create and invent in other than what i studied in and what they want me to be. - Hisham Fawzi
Just imagine a mental health status of a person who could accept award without deserving it and then exuding happiness and even expressing thanks to the audience. - Anuj Somany
I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving. - Craig Ferguson
Y'ever notice how you never seem to get laid on Thanksgiving? I think it's because all the coats are on the bed. - George Carlin
Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Hey everyone. This is , the one who wrote a A BOY I ONCE KNEW and BLACK SHEEP AND KISSING COUSINS. To those of you who read either one, thanks! But another , not me, wrote WOMEN AND THE CUBAN REVOLUTION and VALLEY OF THE SHADOW. Just setting the record straight! - Elizabeth Stone
Thanksgiving creates abundance. - Ann Voskamp
Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism. - Dave Barry
I am wealth, prosperity, and abundance. God multiplies this and I give thanks I AM receiving more and more money everyday. - Ron Barrow
There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed. - Anonymous
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught. - Henry James
Nice to be born in this universe. Thanks dad and mom. - Nodas
Ask. Trust. Give thanks. Simple right? - Dawn Gluskin
Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do. - Tim Keller
The things you have are a shared effort, Gods blessings and human strength. Give thanks for the blessings in all situations. - Unarine Ramaru
I loved you, I trusted you, but you lied to me, deceived my heart and poisoned my life.Now I'm corrupt, I hurt people all in rage of you, but I can't help it.I'm nothing to you now, never was, but your acting still made it hurt. So thanks to you, I hate you too, but my heart will always cry. - blank text
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. - Brian Tracy
Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. - Henry Ward Beecher
Shukhov ate his supper without bread--a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So he'd save the bread. You get no thanks from your belly--it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. - Abraham Lincoln
Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal. - David Assael
Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?' - Terry Pratchett
To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love. - Edward Albee
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. - Ayn Rand
Appreciate the things and people in your life while remaining independent of them. Give thanks for them, but realize that they do not complete you. Only you can complete you. - Serenity Rey
Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude. - Amy Leigh Mercree
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. - William Arthur Ward
Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door. - Jerry Seinfeld
Saying thanks costs nothing but gives everything. - Viewcolleges
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th. - Roy Blount Jr.
A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped. - Alice Childress
Thanks, but no thanks. I need my makeup honey. - Carol - Matthew Leeth
Gods do have their divisions thanks to man. Jesus Christ is the Christian God, Allah the Muslim and so on. As a convent student, I thought God was English till the Sanskrit mantras became somewhat comprehensible. - Andy Paula
Thanks To Those People Who Give A Taste Of Right Ways. - Zia Mustafa
The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see. - Ann Voskamp
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. - W.T. Purkiser
Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. - John Wooden
I live each day with fullness of thanks. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Wisdom comes easy to me today. The Universal Intelligence and the Cosmic Power, Empower me with wisdom each day of my life. Thanks BE to God. _nickc - nick catricala
Thanks for holding my hand" she said, smiling while wiping away the tears off her face. If only she’d let me hold more than her hand, If only she’d let me hold her heart too. - dandelionlady96
A Parting GuestWhat delightful hosts are they—Life and Love!Lingeringly I turn away,This late hour, yet glad enoughThey have not withheld from meTheir high hospitality.So, with face lit with delightAnd all gratitude, I stayYet to press their hands and say,Thanks.—So fine a time! Good night. - James Whitcomb Riley
The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing. - Hannah Whitall Smith
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