Thanks Quotes - Page 24

• ...Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another.

  Mark Driscoll

  Lonely, Coffee, People

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• In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.

  Louis IX of France

  Humility, Pride, Giving

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• America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

  Dennis Prager

  Civilization, America, Political

  "The More Given, the Less Earned". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 21, 2009.

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• Not when the sense is dim, But now from the heart of joy, I would remember Him: Take the thanks of a boy.

  Henry Beeching

  Heart, Boys, Joy

  Henry Charles Beeching (1891). “Love's Looking Glass: A Volume of Poems”

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• Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which is the best game of homo ludens: science is in the strictest and best sense a glorious entertainment.

  Jacques Barzun

  Science, Men, Games

  Jacques Barzun (1964). “Science: The Glorious Entertainment”

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• Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.

  Ann Voskamp

  Gratitude, Fall, Garden

  Source: livesentresources.wordpress.com

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• Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.

  Eliza Leslie

  Gratitude, Favors, Want

  Eliza Leslie (1839). “The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies”, p.176

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• Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displaced beer to become the most civilized and sophisticated of drinks—a status it has maintained ever since, thanks to its association with the intellectual achievements of Ancient Greece.

  Tom Standage

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

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• I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all.

  Ellen Orleans

  Thanksgiving, Strong, Holiday

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• ...And Sunday's the one day I rest, give thanks, and bless.

  Special Ed

  Rap, Sunday, Giving

  Song: Ready 2 Attack, Album: Legal

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• We of the United States of America consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence that we really cherish is that we were given as our neighbors on this great, wonderful continent, the people and the nation of Canada.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Blessed, People, Giving

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967".

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• Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Humble, Islands

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads: Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for Your love. Accept our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely. Make us strong to do Your work, willing to head and hear Your will, and write on our hearts these words: 'Use power to help people." For we know that we are given power, not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people. Help us to remember it Lord, Amen.

  George H. W. Bush

  Strong, Prayer, Father

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.

  Bill Vaughan

  Thinking, Hatred, Benefits

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• Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

  George M. Cohan

  Movie, Thank You, Mother

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every time I say thanks or thank you to a random person they blush and say you're welcome.

  Charlie Morgan

  Thank You, Welcome, Persons

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• Then the Warrior of the Light thanks his traveling companions, takes a deep breath and continues on, laden with memories of an unforgettable journey.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Memories, Inspiration

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• Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

  Georges Braque

  Oval, Horizontal, Vertical

  "Abstract Painting". Book by Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co, p. 39, 1964.

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• Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Smart, Thinking, Dumb

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.4, Random House

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• Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Math, Errors, America

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.171, Random House

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• I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere.

  Sarah Palin

  Bridges, Congress

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

  William Shenstone

  Thankfulness

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• 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.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Thank You, Gratitude, Memories

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• Let me recommend that periodically you and I offer a prayer in which we only give thanks and express gratitude. Ask for nothing; simply let our souls rejoice and strive to communicate appreciation with all the energy of our hearts.

  David A. Bednar

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Prayer

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• It might sound contrary to the wisdom of the world to suggest that one who is burdened with sorrow should give thanks to God. But those who set aside the bottle of bitterness and lift instead the goblet of gratitude can find a purifying drink of healing, peace, and understanding.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Healing, Giving

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