Quotes About Being Thanked

#1. To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#2. Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

Adolf Hitler

#3. If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.

Pierre Dukan

#4. She thanked the toilet, but it did not respond. That was good - if she started to think of it as a sentient being, it would probably be much harder to poop in its mouth.

David Wong

#5. Agape love is ... profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

Madeleine L'Engle

#6. The good husbands understand and offer to help. "All you have to do is ask" they say. But even helpful husbands have to be thanked, their contributions acknowledged, credit given. All those pleases and thank yous. Being grateful takes time and energy. It's often easier to do it yourself.

Bettina Arndt

#7. As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.

Thomm Quackenbush

#8. Overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time ... There now began the greatest and most unforgettable time of my earthly existence.

Adolf Hitler

#9. When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster.

Kristin Cashore

#10. I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.

Dave Mustaine

#11. I thought I'd find that Wholehearted people were just like me and doing all of the same things I was doing: working hard, following the rules, doing it until I got it right, always trying to know myself better, raising my kids exactly by the books ...

Brene Brown

#12. I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

Marc Chagall

#13. Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

Kristin Cashore

#14. Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

Donald Hall

#15. He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.
Jean Valjean about Cossette

Victor Hugo

#16. When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.

Taylor Mali

#17. Every so often, I am thanked for being 'unapologetically me.' I treasure those moments, those people, and remember them every time I'm feeling timid.

Alethea Kontis

#18. Think about where you'd like to be a year from now and use every bit of your imagination to visualize it. You'll need to do this with a serious intent if you want to make your wishes your reality.

Karen McQuestion

#19. I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important.

Justine Henin

#20. GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked ...

William Shakespeare

#21. No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

Daniel Berrigan

#22. Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless that, in the blackness, all one could make out were the contours of despair.

Laura Tillman

#23. It thanked her for the life she breathed into hits being; without her influence, this little being would not have been in the Garden of Glory.

H. L. Balcomb

#24. When was the last time you thanked you for always being there for you? Self appreciation soothes an aching soul.

Iyanla Vanzant

#25. Travers didn't say anything, but she nodded in agreement. Jade silently thanked her for being quiet. He needed quiet right now.

Gregg Hurwitz

#26. I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well. And getting a sense that the world was dangerous, a sense that the game was up, that the Empire was over.

Christopher Hitchens

#27. We drive in silence until I need an answer, "What did he say to you at the elevator?" I look straight ahead when I ask.
"He thanked me for being there for you, even as a boy, when he could not protect you himself. He told me that I had his permission to love you.

Tara Brown

#28. Fucking bitch thought I was nice. If she thanked me for being her friend, it was over. I'd have to go on a killing spree.

Joanna Wylde