If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
Epictetus
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We know a lot of people are working in mission controls on both sides of the ocean, doing the same job, trying to make the space station alive. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.
Sergei Krikalev
I don't think any of us here believe that the weekend after Thanksgiving is the time to have a sales tax holiday.
William Murphy
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
Jim Carrey
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, / England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Laurence Binyon
I just moved here in Thanksgiving, ran away from an abusive relationship. I start a new job Wednesday.
Donna Perry
A retired gentleman called and said he was going to cook Thanksgiving for his ex-fiancée, who was from 30 years ago, ... They were rekindling over turkey dinner and he hadn't really cooked before.
Carol Miller
We planned on that happening, in terms of the way we prepared, the way we were approaching our Thanksgiving break as coaches.
Steve Kragthorpe
It does cause tension in the family when you have to make choices between having Thanksgiving with your family and going off to solve a problem on the spacecraft.
Jim Erickson
Hands down. He's done more for college football than anybody around today. He's like your uncle at Thanksgiving that everybody likes.
Brian Ferentz
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
Merle Shain
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
Roy Blount Jr.
On that first Thanksgiving Day, no one asked the pilgrims if they were here legally.
Juan Garcia
I think that August reunions are steadily trending downhill because people are busy. We go all the way through to Thanksgiving weekend.
Carol Riley
Christmas and Thanksgiving is really the place where movies can make a killing at the box office.
Mark Harris
A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry - that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three-Mile Island.
Johnny Carson
I don't think that this family is odd. People may have greater or lesser elements of drama in their Thanksgiving Day. But I recognize these people.
Holly Hunter
Those people in Durham worked over Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was remarkable.
Norbert Bischofberger
I think that we can all go home until after Thanksgiving and we probably won't have missed much. We are probably going to go sideways to downwards for the next week or so.
Robert Phillips
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Polar Express. It did really well over Thanksgiving and it's still doing well during the lull.
Toby Mensforth
Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.
Stephen Evans
I like to think of it as a type of Thanksgiving, reestablishing that connection on a human level.
Lorne Adrain
It really slides off after Thanksgiving. There's no incentive for manufacturers to keep making the vaccine.
Steve Wright
It really hit over our Thanksgiving weekend. We saw instances of this in Europe on Saturday.
Sharon Ruckman
They recalled all of our CDs. The week of Thanksgiving, all through November and December, there was no product in the stores.
Chris Botti
Sales are going the way they did in the last two years, which was after Thanksgiving, things settled down. But we also see, I think, the power of weather on these numbers.
Michael Niemira
Tickets sold for both Thanksgiving and Christmas are ahead of where they were last year, so it looks like people have tried to book early to beat some of the price increases, ... A key message for customers would probably be to book now for the holidays and not delay to avoid further price increases as the airlines' inventory gets short.
Amy Ziff
Though interest rates are expected to continue their rise in an orderly manner, the U.S. economy continues to look robust. So perhaps the piles of cash that are waiting in the wings will be put to good use as we head toward Thanksgiving and the New Year.
David Buik
[Louisiana's public hospital system is on the verge of financial collapse two months after Hurricane Katrina and needs federal aid quickly, the head of the system said.] We're out of money, roughly after Thanksgiving, ... We are running out of time.
Donald R. Smithburg
I'm going to try to prepare, what for the McArthur family is a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Did you know that mashed potatoes with onions could be dehydrated?
Bill Mcarthur
Historically, steelhead would come back to spawn in the winter over three, four and even five months, depending on the stream. They would arrive around Thanksgiving and continue through March.
Stan Gregory
It's been that way since Thanksgiving.
Tim Stoner
We plan to ride there and then return to California around Thanksgiving and ride regularly at the Santa Anita winter/spring meet when it starts after Christmas.
Jim Pegram
They don't catch everything but it is a surprise. They reset the clock, it slipped and it happened to be for a lot of time. What are you going to do? It's like the coin toss in Detroit on Thanksgiving, what are you going to do?
Alan Faneca
The market could drift for a while here until we get to around Thanksgiving. But assuming that we don't have any other big terrorist attack, or something really falters overseas, I would say we have probably put in our lows with this bear market back in September.
John Chadwick
Relatively cautious on shares of specialty apparel retailers post Thanksgiving.
Barbara Miller
Obviously, the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas is a very busy period for us. We generally do in the corporate sales aspect of out business 25 percent of our business in November or December.
John Petterson
He's the type of guy that you wished was sitting at your Thanksgiving table every year because you know that he's going to just brighten everyone's day. He's a wonderful guy.
Dani Johnson
[There's a sharp divide when it comes to the issue of whether to stay open on Thanksgiving. Many restaurateurs say they close to] give employees a day off to be with their families, ... to give myself a day off.
Danny Meyer
I spent my Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter without my sister, and from these days on I will never be able to spend those days with my sister again.
Mike Halbach
As I think about his leadership, I think of the courage it took for our commander in chief to land on an airstrip in the dark of night, a world away, to be with our troops on Thanksgiving.
Bernard Kerik
He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Harpo Marx
I threw it out at the table at Thanksgiving dinner, where our table was filled with people who had lost their houses. Everyone agreed it seemed like a good idea.
Anne Milling
Volume has been pretty light. Tomorrow could rival the Friday after Thanksgiving for the slowest day of the year. It just doesn't look like people are going to be doing all that much over the next few days.
Adam Tracy
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.
Alistair Cooke
He is very loving now. He comes to Thanksgiving and Christmas. He never phones without telling us he loves us.
Margaret Rice
Gasoline pump prices fell by a third from early September to early December, and the Consumer Confidence Index was nearly back to the pre-hurricane level by Thanksgiving. Early reports suggest that Christmas shoppers will spend 6 percent to 7 percent more than last year.
Jim Haughey
Thanksgiving weekend spending figures suggest that predictions of another strong online holiday season are on track.
Jeffrey Grau
Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving.
George Whitefield
You got to think about Thanksgiving, Christmas . . . we're going to be in a new environment, ... We're used to going over to each other's house and eating. That's going to be the hard part.
Charles Grant
I guess this means I get to eat first at Thanksgiving.
Brett Isaacs
It's going to be an extremely difficult Thanksgiving, but everyone who made it is very thankful.
Brendan King
On this Thanksgiving weekend our joint work has made it possible for the people of Bosnia to spend New Year's Day in peace for the first time in four years.
Warren Christopher
Since Thanksgiving and throughout the normally slow holiday period, we experienced unexpectedly strong trading activity and that strength has not yet ebbed.
Joe Ricketts
I think she's less in shock than she was when first came in around Thanksgiving other than that, pretty much unchanged.
Craig Kennedy
We're entering a seasonal period now, pre-Thanksgiving, pre-December holidays, where we often see a stock advance.
William Hummer
The early November period was rather sluggish but the good news is that the Thanksgiving weekend was superb and that really set the momentum for the holiday season.
Steve Kernkraut
The number of cheap seats available to the general public will dwindle as a result of higher energy prices, ... For the peak family travel times during the winter -- Christmas and Thanksgiving -- I expect that the cheap seats won't be there to be sold.
Tom Parsons
We're tied to a 10-game schedule and the dome date (the Show-Me Bowl games in St. Louis on Thanksgiving weekend).
Joel Wells
As the cost of gasoline continues to remain high, you're going to get pressure on people's choices...and the retail numbers that we saw after Thanksgiving weren't bad, but they weren't good.
Bernie Myszkowski
We're going into the Thanksgiving and Christmas season, and this is where the retailers, at least, are going to make it up. The GDP figures that are boosted by consumer spending remain to be seen.
Paula Stern
I was rescued. I love you. I am sorry I'm a little late for Thanksgiving.
Susan Hallums
We've decided to re-schedule the game sometime during the week before Thanksgiving. Neither one of us plays on that weekend, so we're looking at either the Thursday (Nov. 17) or Friday (Nov. 18) before. We'll make that decision later but, right now, the game is tentatively set for one of those days.
Bill Hart
The Skillman family members have Thanksgiving and Christmas get-togethers every year. There are probably about 40 of us. Up until Becky became lieutenant governor, she had the Christmas celebration at her house and she prepared the chili. Now that she lives in Greenwood, she doesn't have room for the get-together.
Theresa Rhoden
I thought by Thanksgiving 2004 we'd have a system in place. My worst nightmare was if we couldn't get the deal done.
John Underwood
Basically, if you promoted heavily during the Thanksgiving weekend, you did well. If you're willing to be aggressive on price and promotion, you can attract traffic into the stores.
Michael Exstein
The strong spending volume Visa is experiencing, and the trends we've seen leading up to Thanksgiving, bode well for merchants this holiday season.
Wayne Best
We are a little over 50 percent pre-sold in the first phase. We just started before the holidays. Around Thanksgiving.
Gary Garland
One Thanksgiving, we ate at his house, ... We watched old film, and I got to see his retired jersey [No. 63]. Man, that was something.
Willie Lanier
I think it's a bit ho-hum. It's not a bad number, but if you open stores at 5 in the morning and give away free breakfasts and 4.3% is all you can do, in the most aggressive [day-after-Thanksgiving] campaign ever mounted by anyone, I think it says that the consumer doesn't have the money to spend.
Mark Husson
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Rita Rudner
Clearly the economy is not helping. Consumers are relatively strapped, and they're focusing more of their time and attention on the big discount days, like black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) and today.
Todd Slater
I arrived in New York City on a ship the day before Thanksgiving. It was freezing cold.
Felix Silla
Bailey retiring has opened up some avenues. We're leaving here on March 29, and Kent will ride there through Thanksgiving.
Jim Pegram
On Thanksgiving, we were fixing dinner in the back and we had a whole group [of tourists] in. That still throws me. You know it, you just keep forgetting it.
Pat Lampkin
When I was a kid growing up and my dad owned the drug store, it stopped dead on Labor Day. That was it. People left, and you didn't see them again until Memorial Day. There was no Columbus Day, no Thanksgiving, no New Year's Day. There was none of that.
Richard White
Although we had a strong Thanksgiving, up 23 percent at our top five U.S. accounts, retailers have determined that they would rather drastically reduce their inventory levels than capture incremental sales. This has negatively impacted our sales by approximately $350 million this year.
Jill E. Barad
If Thanksgiving was any indication -- it's much busier than Christmas, and we had no real problems -- things will be fine.
Nico Melendez
The Cowboys will look to make a Thanksgiving feast out of Chicago's poor run defense. ...
Drew Henson
I went to the pre-pay mode last night, and might keep that rule in place until the gas price starts to trickle down, maybe by Thanksgiving or so.
David Keith
The Super Bowl is as big a holiday promotion like Thanksgiving, as far as generating sales.
Todd Hultquist
[Wednesday] could rival the Friday after Thanksgiving for the slowest day of the year.
Adam Tracy
We want to bid it now, in order to open up by Thanksgiving or Christmas time, because golf courses here make most of their money from Thanksgiving to Easter. That's the game plan.
Bill Wilsher
At Thanksgiving, we got to eat inside and it was great! Our time was winding down. But we saw places being decorated with Christmas ornaments.
Dixie Aiazzi
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
H. L. Mencken
That's going to provide us with millions of meals. Towards the end of the year, its going to help us get through the hard times this winter and get us up to Thanksgiving when we start raising funds for our Thanksgiving drives.
Frank Richards
[The first time the band met the Kiss vocalist? At Thanksgiving dinner.] It was totally surreal because when we were done eating, he'd get up and take our plates and take them to the kitchen, ... And we're just like, 'Man, Paul Stanley's cleaning off my plate.'
Ethan Mentzer
We're going to be squeezing in just like you do at Thanksgiving dinner.
Reed Jackson
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