Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Voskamp

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

Ann Voskamp

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

Ann Voskamp

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

Ann Voskamp

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.

Ann Voskamp

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

Ann Voskamp

The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

Ann Voskamp

I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

Andy Richter

I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.

Albert Schweitzer

Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

Kindness is always fashionable.

AnnaLynne McCord

Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

Conrad Burns

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

Daniel Defoe

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Doris Lessing

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Daniel Radcliffe

The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying 'Thank you for my childhood', which still blows my mind but is very sweet.

Daniel Craig

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

Ann Patchett

Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.

Anatole France

We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.

Anne Frank

People who give will never be poor.

Angelina Jolie

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

Angela Kinsey

My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you , that kinda changed my life.

Ambrose Bierce

Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.

Alicia Silverstone

It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

Alice Walker

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

Allen West

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

Liam Hemsworth

I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.

Alexander MacLaren

Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Alexander Pope

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding."

Albert Schweitzer

Think with great gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

E. L. Konigsburg

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Dreama Walker

I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.