Best Thanked Sayings

91 Thanked quotes by 81 unique authors

Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,”… — Paul Theroux
Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it! — Terry Pratchett
He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by. — Audrey Niffenegger
Leonard Aster thanked Fighting Prawn and the Mollusk tribe for their hospitality. “You mean,” said Fighting Prawn, “for not killing you?” “Yes,” said Leonard. “It… — Dave Barry
If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you… — Ai Yazawa
I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less… — Suzanne Collins
When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster. — Kristin Cashore
It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse than yours. And… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Otrera stayed dead the second time," Kinzie said, batting her eyes. "We have to thank you for that. If you ever need a new girlfriend...well,… — Rick Riordan
St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thanks,” I say, and Finn looks uncomfortable. Mum used to say he was like a faerie; he didn't like to be thanked. I add, “Sorry. — Maggie Stiefvater
She thanked God that life was not always winter, that spring always came at last to chase away the cold and heaviness, and to release… — Janette Oke
Before Kiki and I headed toward the Keep, I thanked my friends. “For what? We didn’t do anything,” Janco grumbled. “For caring enough to follow… — Maria V. Snyder
There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened. — Cassandra Clare
The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling… — Knut Hamsun
I'd like to restrain from cruelity and not be thanked." ~ Katsa — Kristin Cashore
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can… — D. H. Lawrence
Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a… — Ellen McLaughlin
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… — Taylor Mali
Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt. — John Hawkins
I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself. — Goldwin Smith
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage. — John Osborne
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most… — William Ellery Channing
It was a woman who drove me to drink -- and, you know, I never even thanked her. — W.C. Fields

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