Top 100 Thank Goodness Quotes
#1. What's with the strange clothes?"
I smile through my labored breath, pleased to be making progress. "Where I'm from, you'd be the one dressed strangely."
Thank goodness, she slows a bit. "And what planet is that again?"
"Er. Canada.
Cyn Balog
#2. Love has nothing to do with the object-thank goodness, as we, none of us, really deserve it. To love is a skill-it is to see with tender eyes. To render that which you see dear, not because of its inherent value, but because of your appreciation of it.
March McCarron
#3. How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness.
Eugene O'Neill
#4. What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
Roger Ebert
#5. I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.
Ann Romney
#6. I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.
Carrie Underwood
#7. Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.
Wojciech Jaruzelski
#8. Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'
Marc Maron
#9. I've never been particularly good at explaining or even understanding what this sort of rage is that is so accessible to me. I'm not an out-of-control person, but I can access in my work very easily a feeling of real fury. Thank goodness I've channeled it into my work, I guess.
Jason Robert Brown
#10. Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.
Donny Osmond
#11. Thank goodness for the U.S. Navy. I can at least put off telling Logan. The last thing I need is for my boyfriend to pick a fight with an international crime syndicate.
Rob Thomas
#12. I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam or ham or a dirty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am. That's a great thing to be.
Dr. Seuss
#13. I don't like it, but I'm a person, thank goodness, who can do what I don't like.
Henry James
#14. Thank goodness it wasn't real sex.
Lana Cox
#15. The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to be battered by them. It gives you access to a deep knowledge of how you would respond to things you would never, thank goodness, have been required to experience.
Michael Silverblatt
#16. Last time I had a bun in the oven, I had to give up whiskey. Worst twelve minutes of my life. Thank goodness those brown-and-serve rolls bake fast. - Father Glenn
Darynda Jones
#17. Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.
Dr. Seuss
#18. Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.
Victor Garber
#19. Cat lovers display an intensity lacking - thank goodness - in most human relationships.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#20. No matter how important we all think we are as individuals, when it comes down to it, we're not that important. At times we better recognize that. That life goes on, thank goodness. That we better recognize our role in society.
Henry Kaufman
#21. Oh, thank goodness you're here," the priest said. "I think this poor boy tried to kill himself with a sledgehammer.
Joey Comeau
#22. Well, if I came any earlier, I would have missed the nudie-show. Thank goodness for good timing.
Ashlan Thomas
#23. ... and who are you, anyway?"
"I'm Tina."
"Thank goodness!" I said so loudly she stepped back. "No silly-ass overdone names for you, m'girl."
"It's short for Christina Caresse Chavelle."
"Well, you did the best you could.
MaryJanice Davidson
#24. Well?" she asked when she picked up.
"Do you think we're really alone in the universe?"
"Were you abducted by aliens again?"
"No, thank goodness. Once was enough for me."
"Oh, whew. So, what happened with Reyes? Did you see him?"
"Saw him. Argued with him. Barfed.
Darynda Jones
#25. I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
Louise Brown
#26. I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if ... " and it blossoms into a whole novel.
Jodi Picoult
#27. My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.
Jimmy Carter
#28. [On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.
Princess Diana
#29. I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.
Karl Lagerfeld
#30. How I loved him. Wih every cell in my body and every breath I took. Thank goodness he was there today to share my worst moment and joke about it.
Ednah Walters
#31. It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.
Margaret Thatcher
#32. I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#33. I have a significant other and a large, immediate family. No children, thank goodness. And I have a 13-year-old kitty.
Andrea Parker
#35. Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
#36. You almost exploded. Which, thank goodness, you didn't. You'd never have come out of Garrett's carpet.
Darynda Jones
#37. I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!
Kristin Davis
#38. I had a very good English teacher who said to me that she thought I ought to do it. She - I don't know, she saw something thank goodness because I think if it hadn't been encouraged by somebody that serious, I'm not sure what would've happened to me.
Maggie Smith
#39. Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.
Walt Kelly
#40. We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.
Bruce Vento
#41. Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.
Jon Stewart
#42. Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events.
Richard Ben-Veniste
#43. I couldn't care less who I'm paired with. There's nobody I've ever played better or worse with, thank goodness. You don't want any factor to be outside your control. What if Arnie's Army had bothered me? What id I'd said, "Oh geez, I'm paired with Palmer," I'd never had beaten him.
Jack Nicklaus
#44. The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.
Daniel Dennett
#45. I don't disagree with seeing a Rubens of a nude body, but I don't believe in a nude body in action. With Rubens, thank goodness, they aren't in action.
Ginger Rogers
#46. I always say, 'Thank goodness 'Wimpy Kid' was a comedy because my singing in that was more humorous than professional.'
Devon Bostick
#47. Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that - because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.
Jerry Spinelli
#48. I think he likes it. He fits in with our ethos. He's a good worker and is an excellent pro. Thank goodness he likes his training or else he wouldn't settle here.
Iain Dowie
#49. That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suffering right now because it's out of your hands what happens to you with age.
Bo Derek
#50. You are still yourself in everything except your appearance. You've still got your own mind and your own brain and your own voice, and thank goodness for that.
Roald Dahl
#52. Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases.
Carol Leifer
#53. All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it's an absolute toss-up, isn't it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#54. Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.
Lydia Davis
#55. Was I in here last night and did I spend a $20 bill?
Oh, thank goodness ... I thought I'd lost it.
W.C. Fields
#56. I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.
Ray Bradbury
#57. In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur ... us to achieve great things.
Jerry Spinelli
#58. Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder
no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.
Candace Bushnell
#59. Thank goodness it's you, not that madman who came last time, the one with the bullfighter's name. He seemed drunk to me, or else eminently certifiable. He had the nerve to ask me whether I knew the etymology of the word 'prick,' in a sarcastic tone that was quite out of place.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#60. As long as there are two nations, two parties, two sexes or even two people there are going to be divisions. And all the talk in the world isn't going to change that. Thank goodness!
Lyn Nofziger
#61. Thank goodness there are women in our lives
that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.
William P. Young
#62. I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.
Dave Matthews
#63. Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.
Susan Orlean
#64. We plunge into love with a naivete that ignores all prior humiliations. Thank goodness, I guess. Because we never learn, we reach for love again and again.
Michael Perry
#65. The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe.
Phil Anselmo
#66. We really don't get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.
Jeffrey Tucker
#68. I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.
Shania Twain
#69. Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
#70. After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to set any event down in print is immediately to begin to lie about it, thank goodness; and that it's no less absurd and presumptuous to try on the skin of a bank teller than that of a Bigfoot or a dragon.
Peter S. Beagle
#71. I am not enough in myself; I can barely make it through buying milk and school supplies. Thank goodness there is a Guardian to come before me and throw off the dark.
Anna White
#72. It is possible to be happy without having perfect health ... Thank goodness my happiness doesn't come from my joints, but from my heart.
Beverly LaHaye
#73. Thank goodness for whatever hormones make women so agreeable after you've laid them right, because that's all it took to get her to agree. Also ... pancakes.
C.J. Roberts
#74. Thank goodness air and salvation are still free ... and so is laughter.
L.M. Montgomery
#76. I'm a perfectly equipped failure. ( ... ) 'Thank goodness you're a failure- it's why I so distinguish you! Anything else to-day is too hideous. Look about you- look at the successes. Would you be one, on your honour?
Henry James
#77. Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.
Edsger Dijkstra
#78. Oh, Sophronia, thank goodness. Save me? Please? All those young girls, in pastels, talking about the weather. I shall go jump off a bridge, I swear I shall. Do you have bridges in Wiltshire? They chatter, they chatter worse than Dimity ever did. Oh, the chattering! The chattering, it haunts me.
Gail Carriger
#79. More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.
Edwidge Danticat
#80. Thank Goodness I have nearly
unlearned
folding my desire into itself
being afraid to claim it.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#81. If life was fair ... one third of the people would comprise of judges and lawyers ... one third of police and prison officials ... and one third of legislators ... and one third more to make the other three thirds make any sense at all .... Thank goodness for no fair.
Brian Spellman
#82. Most of the time, thank goodness, we suffer quite stupidly and unreflectingly, like the animals.
Christopher Isherwood
#84. There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.
Phil Anselmo
#85. We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.
Lou Holtz
#86. Thank goodness it only lasted a minute or so.
The inhalant, that is. The sex was rather longer
Belle De Jour
#87. Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on.
Chris Cooper
#88. Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful ...
L.M. Montgomery
#89. I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.
Alain De Botton
#90. When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!'
Raina Telgemeier
#91. I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them.
Tom Morello
#92. I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.
Jon Bon Jovi
#93. When Thomas Edison's factory burned to the ground in 1914, destroying one-of-a-kind prototypes and causing $23 million in damage, Edison's response was simple:
"Thank goodness all our mistakes were burned up. Now we can start fresh again.
Thomas Edison
#94. Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.
Adrian Tan
#95. I never know what will happen. I have fallen on my face - not literally, thank goodness! - many times. But I always survive. And I don't let it stop me.
China Forbes
#96. I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.
Juan Manuel Fangio
#97. Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, and thank goodness for that. Modern romance heroes are more complex than ever.
Sarah MacLean
#98. There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!
Ivor Novello
#99. Uhm, Kevin ... "
"Be quiet, or I swear to God I'll take you right here."
Yes, this was definitely Forced Sex.
Thank goodness.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#100. Evil is real but its opposite, Goodness, is also real. And, thank God, it too is contagious.
Patricia Luce Chapman
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