Famous Quotes & Sayings

Galileo Galilei

The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.

Franz Kafka

Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.

Christopher Buckley

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

Christiane Amanpour

I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

George W. Bush

Deeply impressed with the blessing which we enjoy, and of which we have much manifold proofs, my mind is irresistibly drawn to that Almighty Being, the great source source from whence they proceed and whom our most grateful acknowledgements are due.

George Soros

The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany is grateful to America for the Marshall Plan, Italy would be grateful to Germany for helping it lower its refinancing costs.

George R. R. Martin

Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but...you were well away. Why come back?" A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said.

Frederick Douglass

...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.'

George Dzundza

I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

Fernando Pessoa

For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful

Feist

I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

Famke Janssen

I'm very grateful for work especially in film industry. It's highly competitive and there are a lot of people standing behind me jumping at the opportunity to only do one thing, like one movie or one TV show or one episode.

Ezra Taft Benson

I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful.

Eve Ensler

I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.

Francesco Guicciardini

Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a noble and almost divine quality, it may also happen that while you practice it, you will encounter someone so grateful that he will make up for all the others' ingratitude.

I'm just grateful for the opportunity to say thanks to Pat for the thousands of persons whose lives she has touched.

Catharine MacKinnon

Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.

Cate Blanchett

Every single pore - not on the men, but on the women - is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin.

Cate Blanchett

I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die.

George Eliot

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.

Gray Davis

As governor, I am enormously grateful to every firefighter who put themselves in harm's way to protect us and protect our structures.

Angelina Jolie

They give me so much joy and I wanna make a better world for them. I'm just grateful every day that I have the chance.

It's a learning process. I've just got to get back to the gym and get better. ... I feel grateful for the opportunity to be out here and compete.

Scott Skiles

This is a win we are grateful to have. It was a great comeback.

James E. Faust

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility.

James E. Faust

One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

Jared Leto

I never look at myself as a closet actor wanting to make music or a closet musician wanting to act — I’m very proud to do both and I don’t put one above the other, I’m very grateful and excited by both opportunities — it’s really a unique opportunity to do both.

Janeane Garofalo

I'm grateful for any opportunity to act.

Ethan Hawke

There's only so often you're going to have an opportunity to contribute at a high level and that you should be grateful whenever one presents itself and not take it lightly.

Mindy Cohn

You're grateful and appreciative that people liked you and remember you.

Mike Rowe

I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.

Hanley Ramirez

I always knew I could play, but it wasn't likely to happen in Boston. I'm grateful to the Red Sox for trading me and to the Marlins for giving me the chance.