Quotation Explorer - 'Thought'

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before. - W.H. Auden

I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. However, I was beaten down by the sad fears of my gender- women who didn't allow you to feel pretty or rejoice in who you are, unless it fell beneath how they thought about themselves. - Shannon L. Alder

In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could. - Rudiger Dornbusch

Suddenly, he felt a tremendous stirring of hope inside his heart; it filled his whole body with its warmth. I may not be that much of a broken man, he thought to himself. - H. L. Balcomb

Truly, was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century. Ernst W. Mayr - Buffon

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. - Henry Kissinger

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. - Oprah Winfrey

One can be a pessimist in thought but not in action. - Marty Rubin

A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy. - Shaun Hick

I believe books are life's best gifts, as they allow us to venture into worlds we never thought existed. Giving us a chance to be someone different, giving us the chance to dawdle in the words - And feel free! - Anonymous

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought. - Leonard Michaels

I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always. - Mark Twain

So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my body on a distant shore. - T.S. Eliot

The more exclusive you make yourself in thought and emotion, the more excluded from life you become. - Sadghuru

Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind is no fiction as it is in Christianity. No human mind has ever thought of such total freedom as established by Muhammad. - Mawde Royden

It may not of happened the way you thought it would, but in the long run it will work out as it should. - Chris Burkmenn

This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt and thought and then died, as we did - as we would. - Elizabeth Kostova

Then one day a thought clicked my mind... and even theweirdest event in the past start Making complete sense... - shivangi lavaniya

True wit is nature to advantage dressed;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. - Alexander Pope

Poetry is seeing everything when there is only one thing. It is looking at a rose but seeing the stars, moons, seas, and trees. It is a truth beyond logic, an experience beyond thought. Poetry is the Earth pausing on its axis in order to manifest itself as a rose. - Kamand Kojouri

The Deftmenes are mad and the Dumii are sane, thought Snibril, and that's just the same as being mad except that it's quieter. - Terry Pratchett

You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water. - Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought along feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and being to mature. - Hermann Hesse

i am not a jealous person,but when i am with you,the thought of someone elsepulling your attention away from mekills me a little insideeach time. - Ava

Faith doesn't always come naturally but as we take those steps of faith, we notice little by little that our faith has grown and it isn't as hard as we first thought. - Jacqueline Winslow

I thought that there could be no revolt against nature. I accepted the landscape without dreaming that, behind, there still prowled large skeletons without fur. With just one sign, I thought I was able to make them rise up outside their refuges... - Roger Vitrac

Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that’s bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside…thus creating pain…but, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy (embrace) what you feel - Jeremy Aldana

Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible. - Kevin Murray

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Suicide, as she is falling,Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appallingThe thought she will be dead so soon. - Edward Gorey

A creative thought at first sight seems ridiculous and unimportant, an increase in those who cherish it reassures that hiding your creativity hides you for the rest of your life. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts. - Angelina Jolie

Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed. - Stephen Richards

In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.-- - Samuel McChord Crothers

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. - Thomas Fuller

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy. - W. Somerset Maugham

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. - John Berger

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got. - Flannery O'Connor

I thought it was a novel.It is.What’s it about??You’ll have to buy it to find out, but it’s got everything: love, death and an amusing dog.This one’s got a recipe for apple crumble, I said.Don’t you love that about the novel? The capaciousness? he said. - Marcel Theroux

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called the common good. - Ayn Rand

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love. - Neale Donald Walsch

In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down to some one simple emotion or sensation of the body. - William James

A thought is a Cosmic Order waiting to happen. - Stephen Richards

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Something in me whispered that I needed to stop thinking, that I should above all not go too farwith thinking. But that never worked; I always thought things through to the end, to their mostextreme consequence. - Herman Koch

Behind every smile there is love, thought, and action. - Debasish Mridha

Never believe someone cares for you because of other people's reactions. Sometimes you have to drown out the noise from the crowd, in order to figure out if there is a song playing between the two of you or simply annoying static that you thought was a tune. - Shannon L. Alder

It didn’t affect him because he couldn’t fathom how I felt. He never saw how I held or how I dealt. And when a breeze hits, his first thought is never a scent. We worked in different ways and different places, which were divided by a constellation. - Dominic Riccitello

I never thought that someday men will also use an iPAD. - Santosh Kalwar

You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it. - Carl Sagan

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons. - Aristotle

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. - Samuel Butler

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason. - Isabel Allende

There are things a person does without any reason, without any second thought, maybe they do not hold grudges for long, maybe they just forgive, and there is something strange about that type of person. I admire them. - Shaikh Ashraf

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. - George Bernard Shaw

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace - Giacomo Leopardi

I almost thought that marriage was a cure to loneliness, alas! so many are lonely inside marriage. Then I realized it's not marriage that takes the loneliness away, but when both within marriage honour God and the vows made before Him. - Gugu Mona

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. - Alfred Tennyson

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else. - Paolo Giordano

Let's start with what we can be thankful for, and get our mind into that vibration, and then watch the good that starts to come, because one thought leads to another thought." - - Bob Proctor

Moments of splendor and moments of gloom – they help maintain life’s balance. One thought is key: they all pass... - Joan F. Marques

A chronic invalid has but one thought about his identity: He doesn't want to be a sick man. The rest of the discussion seems frivolous to him-an immense privilege of the healthy. Still, I'm a novelist, and so I pursue it. - Nancy Horan

We are not our thought we are just prisoner of our Identification of thought - Sushil Singh

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. - Dale Carnegie

Never put a single thought of weakness in the flourishing minds of the children. Fill them up with vigour and compassion, for their character will define the future of the entire human species. - Abhijit Naskar

the quality of your mind depends on the quality of your thought - okorie deborah

I always thought loving someone is the greatest feeling, but I realized that loving a friend is even better. We lose people we love but we never lose true friends. True Friendship is something which happens 24/7, no special day is needed to celebrate that feeling. Anywayz happy Friendship Day !! - KakkZ

Aelin sighed. 'This place has been shut down for months, and yet I swear I can still hear the music floating in the air.'Rowan angled his head, studying the dark with those immortal senses. 'Perhaps the music does live on, in some form.'The thought made her eyes sting. - Sarah J. Maas

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. - Graham Greene

Only through action, through living, can we escape from the prison of thought and language. - Marty Rubin

He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh. - David Nicholls

Dalí painted melting clocks. I suppose if he'd asked around first, quizzed people if they wanted to see a picture of a melting clock, the answer might have been something obvious, like 'Clocks don't melt!' But, lucky for us, Salvador didn't care what anyone else thought. You use what moves you. - Laura Ruby

I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness. - Lady Gaga

I didn't see what was in front of me until I thought it might be taken away. - Sam - Charlaine Harris

It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.

One simple thought can change the world; think passionately! - Debasish Mridha

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true. - Robert Frost

Every thought, word, and action plants seeds in the garden of your life. Are you planting seeds of love, compassion, peace, or those of anger, resentment and dissatisfaction? Choose wisely and tend your garden well. - John Bruna

I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself. - Abby Norman

Gods do have their divisions thanks to man. Jesus Christ is the Christian God, Allah the Muslim and so on. As a convent student, I thought God was English till the Sanskrit mantras became somewhat comprehensible. - Andy Paula

Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob—la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on. - Haruki Murakami

What-what do you want?" Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence.The voice cackled maliciously.'To curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother Night!'"Only a thousand times?" Percy murmured. "Oh, good...I thought we were in trouble. - Rick Riordan

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. - Oscar Wilde

I am always doing what I thought I couldn't do, because I might learn something. Henri Marcel - Marriage a Journey and A Dog - Brenda H Sedgwick

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G. Ingersoll

I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones. - Jonathan Culver

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. - Leo Buscaglia

Thought precedes actions. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body. - Christopher Stocking

Before "THOUGHT" there is only YOU and your MIND. Thought, is what assigns meaning to things. Also implying that you are not your THOUGHTS; and with your mind, you have the POWER to assign new meanings to things. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast. - William Wordsworth

Every morning, introduce one positive thought into your mind. Be persistent with it until it becomes your habit. It will change your life. - Debasish Mridha

A devil on being caught for his evil thought and wrong doings gets the help sought of his buddies asking them to go into public with a mask of a civil to rebuke him first virulently and later on revoke all allegations and aspersions cast on him to give him a clean chit. - Anuj Somany

Sometimes, the word SOMETIMES sounds like OFTEN in a thought especially that has got innate truth in it. - Anuj Somany

While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, "If only I could forget..." But that would be too easy, wouldn't it? However, she did with most; she never got too close and she never stayed too long, but there she was...struggling with all the loss in her life. - Donna Lynn Hope

The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. 'The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.' That's a fact. - Marilynne Robinson

I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong. - Scott Spencer

A great many people mistake opinions for thought. - Herbert V. Prochnow

Why are we so afraid to die? Are we concerned about the reckoning we may have to face on the other side? Or does the thought of our nonexistence terrify us? Perhaps neither. Perhaps what we fear most is no longer being able to do the things we love. - Fabrizio Paterlini

I've learned a lot this year...I've learned that some people will wrong you, forgive them anyway.I've learned that things might not work out as you thought they should, do them anyway.But what struck me the most isno matter how good or bad things are, life goes on, so live it anyway. - Zane Baker

An atheist's response to a creationist asking 'what if' there was a God,That would be quite an unsettling thought. - Anonymous

I always felt it wouldpass.I listened to the charges against meknowing some of them to be truebut certainly notimportant enoughto become the target ofviolence, envy,vengeance.I thought it would surelypass. - Charles Bukowski

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science. - Charles Darwin

For a significant manwoman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron. - Friedrich Nietzsche

We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise! - Israelmore Ayivor

I'm not an Emontional, but how???I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has happen and it can't be changed", "..But probably it is for good". - Deyth Banger

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them. - William Stafford

I look up to as God every person, thing or thought that makes life worth living one day longer - Prabhukrishna M

Before I was ordained, when I was working for the council, I thought of the first three months of the year as January, February, March. Now I think of them as Epiphany, Candlemas and Ash Wednesday. - Adam Smallbone

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. - Henri Poincare

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain options makes it impossible to earn a living. - Bertrand Russell

My mom, God love her, she was one of those Bible people. She thought it was wrong to bother anybody, regardless of race, color or religion. It just wasn't a Christian thing to look down on anybody, and that's what she taught us. - Levon Helm

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. - George MacDonald

Action is the bridge between thought and reality. - Richie Norton

Whether rich or poor, following the Should Life will lead to heartache and struggle. Leading your life will lead to places you never thought you'd be, people you never thought you'd meet, knowledge you never thought you'd gain, and a life of adventure and growth. Lead your life; not the Should Life. - Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Thought leadership is first and foremost life leadership. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a Miracle? It is something that was once thought Impossible but became Possible with FAITH. - RVM

When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand.(Women in Love) - D.H. Lawrence

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has become the secret friend of their author. - Katherine Mansfield

That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure. - Madonna

Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable. - Michael McDowell

And this gray spirit yearning in desireTo follow knowledge like a sinking star,Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. - Alfred Tennyson

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it. - Jonathan Safran Foer

By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase! - Mehmet Murat ildan

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together. - William Shakespeare

And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside. - Robert J. Morrissette

Every thought has the power to spread its effects on other minds as a wave can spread all over the ocean. - Debasish Mridha

I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot. - Roman Payne

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never want that to happen again. - Edgar Wright

Peace begins in the mind with a simple thought of love and kindness for all. - Debasish Mridha

Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better. - Darnell Lamont Walker

I might’ve found a way to cure them. Crystal said in a jumble of words. Cure them? Permanently? Yes sir. He thought about this a moment before speaking, You’ve got two weeks, can you do it by then? That’s plenty of time sir, thank you. - Julia Barkey

Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that? - Artemus Withers

All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it's like, "Hey, I've got a cup in case we need another cup." "Dude, you're a genius!" - Louis C. K.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) - Christopher Nolan

Getting to that place of no thought, is not only a spiritual workout, it is enthused bliss for the soul. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

Fate can not be proven or disproven so act knowing that destiny is a product of your every thought and every action. - Matthew Donnelly

You haven't lived a full life until you have been in a very tough situation when you thought you were going to die. War does that to you. - William E. Peterson

Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. Or if not unhappiness, then at least melancholy. - Salman Rushdie

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. - Sallust

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. - Victor Hugo

For awhile, I thought that was love.-Gaara - Masashi Kishimoto

All my life I had thought that if you worked hard you would be rewarded. If you worked your ass off, there would be some reward for you. But now I knew that the reward was just the chance to work your ass off. - Don J. Snyder

I have come to the realization that I have reached the age or mental state of the entering a room with thought in mind syndrome only to find the thought took a turn and went elsewhere...fortunately it wasn't a life or death issue... Sept 24, 2016... — thinking about life - kjforce

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself. - Noam Chomsky

Every pedagogical situation can be thought of as a kind of triangle among three parties: the student, the teacher, and the world that student and teacher investigate together. - Aaron Hirsh

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time. - Wendell Berry

Act with though awareness and love in the present moment then you will never need to worry about the thought of regret. - Matthew Donnelly

We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors. - Russell Brand

When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script. - Shannon L. Alder

I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich. - Matt Groening

In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me. - Krishnamurti

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke

He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.

I thought the invention of mobile phone was to save our time & money, be we are doing exactly the opposite. - Srinivas Shenoy

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context—in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks. - Isidor Isaac Rabi

I knew that we would obtain it, I thought that what I had dreamed, had no reason to be complied. - Daniel Díez Ginestar

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. - Henry David Thoreau

I helped with customers who raced through the front door in a mad search for the perfect gift. One that looked as if they'd put hours of thought into their choice. And yes, you're right. They were mostly men." -- Abby Shaw, Sucker Punched - Sammi Carter

Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains. - Alfred North Whitehead

How few human beings, the major thought with a sigh, can exert by hard work, thrift, intelligence or any other virtue the slightest influence on their own destiny. - FARRELL J.G.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think like a man of action but act like a woman of thought. - Amit Abraham

How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought. - Marty Rubin

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness," O'Brien had said to him. He knew what it meant, or thought he knew. The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge, one could mystically share in. - George Orwell

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true. - Kwame Anthony Appiah

Michael Powell knows what I am going to say even before I say it — maybe even before I have thought it – and that is very rare. You are lucky if you meet someone like that once in your life. - Emeric Pressburger

A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place. - Ryan Lilly

Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature. - Blaise Pascal

Until he had come up with a name, he was too pathetic to look at -- a real idiot. But now that he had some label like graviconcentrate, he thought that he understood everything and life was a breeze. - Arkady Strugatsky

Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over. - Darnell Lamont Walker

If the thought of leaving a relationship makes you want to hang your head in shame, why ever would you want to walk out the door? You are obviously missing something. - Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Motivate yourself by failure, to achieve bigger things than you thought possible at first. - Micha van Randen

Just for a moment there was an unusual feeling of bliss. Strange word, he thought. It's one of those words that describe something that does not make a noise but, if it did make a noise, would sound just like that. Bliss. It's like the sound of a soft meringue melting gently on a warm plate. - Terry Pratchett

The numbness will go away, he thought. It'll take time, but I'll do it, or Faber will do it for me. Someone somewhere will give me back the old face and the old hands the way they were. Even the smile, he thought, the old burnt-in smile, that's gone. I'm lost without it - Ray Bradbury

Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity. I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk. - Douglas Adams

Our every thought reflects our level of awareness, consciousness, and love for this amazing world that we call home. - Debasish Mridha

He’d thought it would be the right thing to say, but she scoffed a little… and that, more than anything—more than the prospect of having his ribs crushed in or his face pulled off or his neck stretched on a rope—scared him out of his wits. - V.S. Carnes

I thought I told you to wait in the car. - Tallulah Bankhead

When your thought is right, your imaginations will be colourful; you will then dream and not have nightmares! - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying. - Anthony Liccione

A great life begins with a great thought. - Toni Sorenson

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. - Bertrand Russell

I am right. I`m always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right. - Jerry Lee Lewis

A person tends to say to the people anything with the word 'YOU' in own voice, only when one wants merely others to DO often excluding oneself from that very same thought. - Anuj Somany

Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively. - Debasish Mridha

Change your thought, change your mind.Change your belief, change your action. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A change in thought can change a lot. A change thought can untie and untangle the knot - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten? - Sigmund Freud

ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. Romach Pute - Ambrose Bierce

My character is beyond your every thought, and I'm different from your every character. - Tanmaya Guru

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought. - Alan Cohen

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on. - Virginia Woolf

It's a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch—all in a flicker of thought. That's why I love writing. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Women share their sadness, thought Edith. Their joy they like to show off to one another. Victory, triumph over the odds, calls for an audience. And that air of bustle and exigence sometimes affected by the sexually loquacious - that is for the benefit of other women. No solidarity then. - Anita Brookner

Thoughts, by their nature, come and go endlessly in you. But you are not the thought; you are the one seeing the thought, so any thought of who you are cannot be the truth of who you are. - Enza Vita

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment. - Anne Besant

I thought I had nothing to be grateful for today, but then the universe became quiet a moment so I could hear my heart beat to the rhythm of my life. - Karen A. Baquiran

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most. - Émile Zola

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. - Thomas Carlyle

Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious - Harry Toh Jun Shen

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. - Stephen Vincent Benet

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

The ancestor of every action is a thought - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I thought I could fix almost anything, but then she was more than broken. - Tushar Chauhan

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction. - Ian McKellen

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience. - Raheel Farooq

I have nothing against youI just learned not to trust youI know its a trial and errorBut shit, I thought I'm a solver - Mr. Pessimist

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker. - Paul Valéry

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary. - John Ruskin

Freedom rings when you realize you can become what you never thought you could become. - Richie Norton

Education is the seed of thought. If the mind is fertile, it will grow better crops. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought. - William Shakespeare

I was wrong, I thought I could change her to different, something better, elegant, but instead of it the same thing she gifted to me, don't know why, when, how, but she did so well..! - Ridhdhesh Jivawala

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project. - Joe Roman

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought. - Albert Guerard

English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though. - Anonymous.

...he wanted me to come home--to come home, as he said, and settle down, and whenever he said that I thought of the sediment at the bottom of a stagnant pond. - James Baldwin

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. - Søren Kierkegaard

i was lieing to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost - I just wasn't ready to be found. - Nikki Rowe

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? - Joan Didion

I never thought I am going to be so followed and to see my stuff and on some other places... so I want to say big Thanks to all. - Deyth Banger

Thought is everything. Pain is something. Hence where there is no thought there can be no pain. Wherefore if you have a pain it is evident that you have a thought. To be rid of the pain stop thinking. - John Kendrick Bangs

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house - William H. Gass

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before. - Carla H. Krueger

Venture deep into the wilderness of lost thought to the point that you physically shiver with apprehension, and there you will find creativity - Carl Henegan

You always were such a worrier. It was as if you thought your worrying was all that held the world together, and if you stopped for a split second the whole thing would just fly apart. - Paul Murray

Thought: everyone had their own thought, but those who writes had their own view and people make several views on that one view. Its not fair, he who thinks only can describe what the reality is not by others. - Nutan Bajracharya

It seemed hardly feasible that anyone could tune an oil barrel, and even less credible that the barrel could make music like nothing else in the world. She thought those sounds were magic. - Stieg Larsson

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. - Virgil

Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. - Salman Rushdie

You call it thought. I call it a mind manufactured invisible powerful product. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God. - Sunday Adelaja

It only confirmed what I'd always thought - that for all their education university professors can't even imagine political developments having any effect on their careers : they consider themselves untouchable. - Michel Houellebecq

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."[The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)] - William O. Douglas

To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist! - Mehmet Murat ildan

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought. - Sir Thomas Beecham

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. - Thomas Carlyle

A hundred times I must have thought of ways to take it back, but I wasn't smart enough to understand that an apology is a sign of strenght, not weakness (...) - Terry Hayes

In the deep places he gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs through all the veins of the world in sorrow and in joy; for if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth. - J.R.R. Tolkien

Everyone sees only their own reflection in the mirror of thought. - Marty Rubin

Darnell had received what is called a sound commercial education, and would therefore have found very great difficulty in putting into articulate speech any thought that was worth thinking; - Arthur Machen

Mind is greedy. When you sense the benefits with people who previously thought rubbish about you, the mind forgoes those thoughts and inclines toward those people only to gain optimal benefits. - Ashish Patel

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book. - Amy Plum

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret. - Steve Goodier

If you just did what you wanted to do, and didn't care what anyone thought, you'd be Autistic. - Seamus McDuff

In counseling, we don't simply help people to change one thought; we help people to understand the pattern of their thinking – their mindsets. - James MacDonald

The thought manifests the word;The word manifests the deed;The deed develops into habit;And habit hardens into character;So watch the thought and its ways with care,And let them spring forth from loveBorn out of compassion for all beings.As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become. - Juan Mascaró

Last night, I spoke to God.I told Him my plans. He started to cry.I thought I was great to move The Greatest to tears.He said that He was crying only becausemy plans were very differentthan His plans for me. - Kamand Kojouri

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part. - Richard Feynman

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. - R. Buckminster Fuller

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

Cool parents, I thought, are the ones who know nothing. It made me feel a little sad for mine, but I didn't say any of this. - John Darnielle

and the idea of nothingness — the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling — has, in my dear master’s work and in my memories of him, something as high and luminous as sunlight upon snowy, unscalable peaks. - Álvaro de Campos

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. - Abigail Adams

So I was the son of a man who had Vietnam living inside him. Yeah I had all kinds of reasons for feeling sorry for myself. Being fifteen didn't help. Sometimes I thought that being fifteen was the worst tragedy of all. - Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

The thought of youbeing with someone else isliterally killing me.And you couldn’t care less. BecauseI am just one of the writhing bodiesthat ruined your bed sheets. - Sade Andria Zabala

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice. - Leon Blum

You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means. - Hugh Elliott

I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. - Viktor Frankl

No art is silent! Because art is an original idea and every original idea speaks, every interesting thought screams, every art talks, every art screams! No art is silent! If it is silent, then it is not an art! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Now I had my goals,I made my plansAnd things I ought to achieve.I thought success was the lock, And hard work was the key. - Nirab karki

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is. - Thomas Aquinas

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be. - Charlotte Armstrong

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

It only took a corny joke, but the smile I saw shone brighter than a glare, more profound than a star. And the best thing... it was so genuine. It was so her. I never thought I could fall more in love. - Hubert Martin

I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened. Then why am I so sad? - Lena Dunham

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John F. Kennedy

Feelings should never supersede rational thought... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more. - Julie Ann Elliott-Morton

Before one can walk as Christ walked,and talk as He talked,he must first begin to think as Christ thought. - A.A. Allen

Time is a super-imposition on the eternal now by thought. - Pat Crowley

What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb."Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?"That's big."Yes. But there's something else."What else?He leaned forward."Being forgotten," he whispered. - Mitch Albom

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

How I ever could have thought he was boring or easy was beyond me’ (Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 471). - Danielle Weiler

When they throw the water on the witch, she says, Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness. That line inspired my life. I sometimes say it to myself before I go to sleep, like a prayer. - John Waters

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them. - Nancy Astor

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. - Marquis de Vauvenargues

Peace begins with a thought of love. - Debasish Mridha

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male. - Kurt Cobain

It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Whenever my phone blinks fist thought come to mind is u and only u. - pavankumar nagaraj

We are, all of us, always only one breath or softening of our thought away from an invasion of divine wonder and fresh miracles. Soul waits for any small opening of our hearts to steal into everyday life. - Jacob Nordby

The thought is just as strong as the consequence. - Anthony Liccione

Peace is only a thought away. - Jill Bolte Taylor

I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon. - Camille Desmoulins

People get so frightened for no reason, but I'll tell you, to live with no purpose is a far more frightening proposition... You bring yourself to say yes when you always thought the only possible answer was no, and your whole world changes. - Liz Rosenberg

He often paused before he spoke. She thought this exquisite; it was as though he had such regard for his listener that he wanted his words strung together in the best possible way. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance onOur SOULS. - C.G. Jung

DNA, DNA, DNA. You never ever deny it, fool. I thought he is my cold enemy. When he died, he became my father. Says Bhutta (Biography) - M.K. Bhutta

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. - Søren Kierkegaard

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. - Pope Benedict XVI

Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home. - Oscar Hammerstein II

O words of love, O words divine! The silver thought, the golden line! Of all men's words, there's none so fine, As these three words: 'I've got mine!' - Hagar the Horrible

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour. - Victor Hugo

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even thought they countain most of our lives. - J. Green

Your thought should be creative and not destructive; it should be full of hope and faith for a more excellent future. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought. - Albert Pinkham Ryder

Just when the butterfly thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. - Anonymous

I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story was called fact, and a made-up story was called ficton. Auntie May said a made-up story is a bit like telling lies, only the people who read them knew that already and so it didn’t matter - Rebecca Lloyd

I went back to look for you.Not understanding the language of hello,I thought I’d speak it just the same. - Rod McKuen

Never underestimate the power of thought. - Anonymous

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder. - Fulton J. Sheen

We are Not Our thought , return to being in You and enjoy the Love that shared by the God(infinity). - Sushil Singh

Have you ever thought your friend or loved one had issues and you kept praying for God to change them? Have you ever thought it could be you just need to change your attitude? - Amanda Penland

I learnt to test the size of my brain..by trying this simple thought ! Look out for the good things, not the faults.It takes a good deal bigger sized brain to find out what is not wrong with people and things than to fins out what is wrong!!! - Abha Maryada Banerjee

Do not fear, you mind may be criticizes for losing track. Enjoy the fact that most may not ride the same train of thought. - C. Jerry

Then we got into a labyrinth, and, when we thought we were at the end,came out again at the beginning, having still to see as much as ever. - Plato

How do we perceive what’s important in life, from what we once thought to what we think now, how does it change? - Saim Cheeda

If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The moment that we are aware of our thoughts we are present. It takes no-mind to recognize our thoughts because mind and no-mind can not co-existPresence and Mind can not co-exist. So therefor presence, thought awareness and no-mind are one. - Matthew Donnelly

What appears in your life everyday is the result of what you have previously thought or felt. The speed that your thoughts and feelings appear in your life, depends on how much you believe it to be true - Franklin Gillette

When I thought I felt better, grief shot its silver tip arrow at my heart to remind me that it was still there.Excerpt From: Holster, S.G. Thirty Seconds to Die. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.Check out this book on the iBooks Store - S.G. Holster

Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas. - Marchioness Townsend

So this is my cue of where to leave you. Now it's your story to retell and pass on. Because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon. So remember, never surrender.'Cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore from any scope. - Thomas Dutton

Don't you feel shame? I thought scum like you could at least feel shame - Kohta Hirano

Never underestimate the power of a scented candle!" declared a sign beneath a display of coloured candles.Yes, I thought. Buy two and invade Russia! - Alice Pung

Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron. - Glenn Beck

The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don’t always get what you thought you were asking for. - Vernor Vinge

Don't wait for the perfect thought, or the perfect moment; because perfection only occurs after action. - Archana Chaurasia Kapoor

Every time I am in the dark and a bit of light falls on me, I see a bit of you in my shadows. There is always a bit of you in every song I hear, in every thought I conceive, in every rain that I drench in, in every star that I stare at in the sky every night and in every breeze that touches me. - Akshay Vasu

Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?"I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up. - Richard Paul Evans

Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today. - Vironika Tugaleva

There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try. - Henry Bromel

My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes without having a single original thought. - H. L. Mencken

Always there is a bitch lies in every virgin heart, and a virgin always lies in the heart of a bitch. To be honest, there cannot ever be anyone who is one-man or one-woman human, in action or may be in thought! - Argha

You used words, discarding them meaninglessly, without thinking, whereas I thought they held meaning. I found what you will never see: that my love resides on the other side of words. - Broken Places - Rachel Thompson

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. - W. Somerset Maugham

A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. - William Wordsworth

I'm grateful for past betrayals, heartaches, and challenges... I thought they were breaking me; but they were sculpting me. - Steve Maraboli

I didn't know someone could cry that much, I thought the tears would run out. They don't. - Sara Quin

It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. - Bill Bryson

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same. - Yanni

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness. - Loren Eiseley

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. - Paul Fix

I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got. - Neil Diamond

It is not enough to be a man... you have to become an idea... a terrible thought... a wraith- indeed- Become one with the darkness. - Compton Gage

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. - Barbara W. Tuchman

I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one. - Walter Moers

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. - Peace Pilgrim

And, suddenly, as if her head cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they're only in my own mind, she thought, they're there and worth fighting for. - Diana Wynne Jones

Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes. - Stephen Richards

If there's no sea-gull there's no meeting, Wicklow had said. No sea-gull means abort. That's my epitaph, thought Barley. 'There was no sea-gull, so he aborted. - John le Carré

What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can’t be mass marketed. - Claire Vaye Watkins

But Ana, how could I have been such a lousy judge of character?" I groaned."Because you don't much care to judge people's characters," she answered after a moment's thought. "It's a strength, you know, as well as weakness."It was small consolation. - Chris Stewart

Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives. - Sunday Adelaja

Thought about being a stand up comedienne for zombies, but when they eat you alive, they really eat you!! - Neil Leckman

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand - Confucius

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. - Michel Foucault

A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark cluds and she looked up to see a silver lining. It was a sign, she thought. - Diane Grifith

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution. - Aung San Suu Kyi

I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind. - S.J. Watson

You’re sure? I thought I heard someone.Nope, not a soul, Blake said. Get it. Soul. Because we’re in a church. - A&E Kirk

Who'd have thoght I could miss someone I've never actually met? Me. I've thought that. I miss tons of things I've never seen, and now you most of all. - Leah Thomas

I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife - Hannibal Lecter - Thomas Harris

I prefer the lightness of laughter to the heaviness of thought. - Marty Rubin

I’ve always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times. - Carla H. Krueger

But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls. - W.E.B. Du Bois

Our hearts fill with terror at the thought of harm coming to our loved ones, don't they? You cannot have love without fear. The two coexist. - Marie Lu

The most common lie uttered without thought, sincerity, resolve, or guilt: I love you. - Richelle E. Goodrich

And everything I thought I knew - you made me trade it all for you...but, frankly, you're not worth it. - Phar West Nagle

Beware of following a train of thought. - Marty Rubin

I' is nothing it just a thought..........! - Sushil Singh

If she’d thought the oncoming storm outside was crazy, it was nothing compared to what happened between her and Finn every time they so much as looked at each other. - Jill Shalvis

For all who are amazed or annoyed by the diverse quotes, it is just a reflection how a human mind asynchronously changes the thought patterns, un-edited, raw and authentic! - Ramana Pemmaraju

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.

The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind. - Titus Lucretius Carus

Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought might lead to a scary place. - Joe Blow

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think. - Chuck Palahniuk

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. - Søren Kierkegaard

Sow the right words! Think the good thought. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

You can never clear a thought from someone's mind, which is incepted by a external cause. thy you know the truth, let it pass patience and self realization is the key to clearance. - Pushkar Saraf

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. - Mahatma Gandhi

What if deep down inside you...you knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were? - Roger James McDonald

One of the presidential campaigns unveiled more of an infrastructure in place for the next contest than was previously thought to be present, with a spokesperson saying that one of the campaign's strengths is that it does not make an effort to draw attention to with every asset. - New York Times The

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. - William Shakespeare

Your future will definitely head to the same direction with your thoughts; this is why planning your thought is so important. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

If you stay focused on one task or thought at a time you will less likely become frustrated. - Sheryl Campbell

I hated you, said Laurent. "I hated you so badly I thought I’d choke on it. If my uncle hadn’t stopped me, I would have killed you. And then you saved my life, and every time I needed you, you were there, and I hated you for that, too. - CS Pacat

I shine my light on every dark thought that arises and they turn into whispers with wings and fly away. - Jodi Livon

Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit. - Raheel Farooq

Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action. - Amelia Earhart

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. - Alfred North Whitehead

First crush, first kiss, first time I saw the oceanAnd dug my toes in the sandBaseball and summer nights, casting out when the fish first bite,First time I got a Chevy in my handsI thought nothing can touch that by a mileI thought nothing can make that moment seem so worthwhile - Scotty McCreery

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. - John Andrew Holmes

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. - Louis Pasteur

I thought we were going to take a 20-mule team out to the Grand Canyon and get a Bunsen burner and a bow and arrow, and whatever you can catch you cook. And it’s gotta be gourmet and it better look good. - The Creators of Top Chef

The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark,our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams. - Gene Wolfe

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. - John Patrick

A person’s THOUGHT that does not make most people often think that the life is miserable, has not been thought really well. - Anuj Somany

When success is one thought away, think it.When success is one word away, speak it.When success is one deed away, perform it.When success is one step away, take it.When success is one moment away, seize it. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Hardcore without punk isn't music, it's a genre of porn. And punk isn't a genre of music, it’s a thought process. - Dominic Owen Mallary

Don’t rush, just because you have reasons! Reason with the reasons and take definite action in the right direction, in haste, where needed, or with patience, where it is essential to do so! Mind your thought and think about your action! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this. - Lewis Carroll

What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there is no thought, can there be a mind? They cancel each other out, do they not? - Enza Vita

I'm going to tell you a secret:You don't have to believe every thought that pops into your head. - B. Dave Walters

Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. - Victor Hugo

A thought comes when it will, not when I will. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Forgetting takes space./Forgotten matters displace/as much anything else as/anything else. We must/skirt unlabeled crates/as thought it made sense/and take them when we go/to other states. - Kay Ryan

Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination. - Sandra Alex

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought. - Theodore Roosevelt

When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else. - Marty Rubin

It is so amazing to see how lots of people can beguile themselves to believe that they have not been caught as who they actually are by the post or thought that they like, comment, say or share online and, most surprisingly, continue to regale themselves with the netizens of their type only. - Anuj Somany

Begin each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart. - Roy Bennett

Wood burns. Roots nourish. Branches shelter. Leaves heal. The words had become her mantra, her way of reigniting her courage when it started to falter. My life depends on a tree, she thought wryly as she cinched her pack. - Teresa Tsalaky

Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living. - Orhan Pamuk

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser―in case you thought optimism was dead. - Robert Brault

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. - Robert Collier

Your future is dependent on your thought today, therefore think good and lovely thoughts now! - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over. - Ellen DeGeneres

I thought if only we could go onand meet again, shy as strangers. - Lisel Mueller

Challenge yourself or what you are right now is the best you will ever be and never what you thought you would be. - Auliq Ice

She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. - Faith Sullivan

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence.

Thought is the only concept that creates the unknown. You have everything you need to know in this moment. - Matthew Donnelly

Stop making things of less value your food for thought each moment of time! Your mind is precious. Mind your mind! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The mind uses the power of thought to win the world. - Debasish Mridha

Consider the weak point in your private life and make a resolution for it, you will be stronger than what you thought and you'll start to achieve your goals easily. - Auliq Ice

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart? - Boris Pasternak

I thought of him as a beautiful deer in the forest that made this world a better place simply by existing; I didn't need it in my living room hanging off the wall. - Christine Duan (Kissing Is The Easy Part)

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. - Herman Melville

Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart. - Douglas Adams

A thought for this Damocletian Age: the trouble with justice is it just isn't it? - Nanamoli Thera

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that. - Mark Vonnegut

Today you are lifted higher. Understand that you can go further and be better than you ever thought possible. Start by saying yes to all good things. Doors will open for you filled with unlimited opportunities. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I don't miss you, I miss who I thought you were. - Waseem Latif

She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundamentally and she thought she was immune. No one in her family, however, noticed the transformation in her, and she was not able to resist the power of their habitual expectations. - Ian McEwan

Emily swore and he was impressed; he'd never thought to string cocksuckingsonofabitch together in one sentence. He couldn't help himself; the snort of laughter escaped before he could hold it in. - C.H. Admirand

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining. - Alasdair Gray

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music. - Igor Stravinsky

The ultimate change one can ever seek for is a change in thought. A change in thought is a change in body - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Every beautiful thought adorns your life with beauty and love. - Debasish Mridha

There once was a young man from Lyme Who couldn't get his limericks to rhyme When asked "Why not?" It was said that he thought They were probably too long and badly structured and not at all very funny. - Anonymous

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist. - Sir Arthur Eddington

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind. - Vincent Van Gogh

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought - Napoleon Hill

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. - Oscar Wilde

But this was different, as if some creature had risen from a corner of my cell and taken over every part of me. It swallowed meaning. I hadn't thought suffering would be like this, so ordinary, so dull, and so endless. - Robyn Cadwallader

The sub-conscious mind is so powerful in such a way that even if you empty your mind of all its components, there will be a little thought; it is synonymous to a well informed person who can never be deformed. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I thought the worst of everyone. - Kurt Vonnegut

When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.-- Vina, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), Star Trek, 1966 - Gene Roddenberry

I am neither the mind not the thought, I am its Creator. - Rajasaraswathii

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. - Henry David Thoreau

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. - Albert Camus

I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. - Douglas Adams

Never underestimate the power of a simple thought. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

ALL EXCUSES must be FOUGHT by taking ACTION against the THOUGHT. ~ Author - Mammy Oaklee

You're not a Horse!" the woman cried.That,Steven thought, is a strange thing to say. - Stan Lee, Stuart Moore, Andie Tong

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? - Tom Stoppard

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark. - Mary Stewart

Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest. - Anton Szandor LaVey

Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers... - E.A. Bucchianeri

Words without thought is just that,words... - Faruk DML

Everyone was born with thought and dream...after a lot of time they just gave up. The life went upon their waist, they couldn't handle it and they fail! - Deyth Banger

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared. - Edward Chapin

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. - Harry Truman

You build a tower then you also build the chance it will fall. To think of life as a foolproof is a falacy of fools, he thought. Things happen, he believed, and there’s nothing you can do to keep them from occuring. - Marianne Wiggins

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. - Burt Bacharach

Mastering my mind one thought at a time. - Nikki Rowe

Knowledge is the seed for thought. Knowledge, experience, and thoughts give birth to wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

The moment you think you can do something that you previously thought you couldn't, you can. - Richie Norton

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare. - Lewis F. Powell Jr.

There was enough ice.So I thought. For my drink.When I used it all,I cut her heart out and used it instead.I never ran out of ice that night. - Mrinaal

First, I thought, almost despairing,This must crush my spirit now;Yet I bore it, and am bearing-Only do not ask me how. - Heinrich Heine

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation. - Sarah Addison Allen

The thought of never crossing your path again is to enormous to bare, so for now I'll make dreams in my heart and remind myself to go and sit & remember them every once in a while. - Nikki Rowe

A simple thought can transform you forever. So cultivate beautiful thoughts, ugliness never. - Debasish Mridha

Daphne’s thought in Nation: This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards. - Terry Pratchett

The Internet"not food for thought, just chewing gum put out by people who know the vocabulary of thought but not it's syntax - Michael Hecht

Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Searching for nothingWondering if I’ll changeI’m trying everythingBut everything still stays the sameI thought if I showed you I could flyWouldn’t need anyone by my sideI'm running backwardsWith broken wings I know I’ll die - Sully Erna

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that. - Susan Sontag

The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future. - Melody Carstairs

It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion. - Mohammed Ali Bapir

All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they were men and women who projected into the future. They thought of what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition. - Bob Proctor

A small positive thought can bring a magical change to the world. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

She had a weird, fleeting thought that she wanted to eat her sister, like a sorceress in a storybook – gobble her down into her belly, keep her safe. - Leslie Parry

, the respected attorney, entrepreneur, and thought leader, defines true leadership in this video and shares the story of Amber and how a girl with terminal cancer embodied true leadership. - Chris Salamone

Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you!Garfield: Feed me. - Jim Davis

In order to survive our youth, many of us became sensitized to which conditions we had to play to, to receive attention. No wonder we mistook this attention for love. We thought love came in finite quantities—it had to be competed for among siblings, or it had to be paid for with exacting dues. - Maureen Brady

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn. - Ambrose Bierce

Thought we explained, but it does matter how that is understood. Is to say - you are not done until you done! - Praveen Chenna

Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Promoting own good thought is entirely different from Praising oneself only a lot ,and a sensible netizen can easily make the difference between the two from the big photo that the quote poster has got. - Anuj Somany

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it. - Taylor Swift

Thought always deceives us, when it becomes a substitute for action. - Marty Rubin

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. - Albert Einstein

Thought I wanted overnight success, until I achieved it through hard work and the refusal to back down! What you earn, you keep. - A.M. Hudson

The only thing man has never done is what he hasn't thought about. - Richmond Akhigbe

I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first. - George MacDonald

So many things I had thought forgottenReturn to my mind with stranger pain:Like letters that arrive addressed to someoneWho left the house so many years ago. - Philip Larkin

Because in truth, my love, if you have thought of me once then I have thought of you a thousand times. You have captured my heart. It is yours. I am at your mercy now - Kamand Kojouri

Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Thomas Gray

I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss. - Stephen King

You shouldn’t expect a positive outcome when you have a negative thought process. Only positive thoughts can create positive results. - Debasish Mridha

A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought in making you. - Khaled Hosseini

The meek shall inherit the earth? Well... I don't think so. If by meek you mean friendly and introverted, okay maybe, but if by meek you mean unwilling to take a chance, then never. If I was a betting man and I had to wager on who I thought would inherit the earth, my money would be on the curious. - Jim Coudal

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...? - Roland Barthes

There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know. - Steve V. Cypert

Actually it's just a thought in your mind. Please put in clear your mind with that thoughts.!! - Qasim Raza Qadri

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve. - Theodora Goss

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous. - Jean Baudrillard

linear brains can't curve a thought. - douglas m laurent

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter. - Daniel Radcliffe

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose. - Ludwig van Beethoven

You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Ever thought, that the only thing a man can do for ten/twelve hours a day is work.He can't eat for ten hours; he can't drink for ten hours; he can't make love for ten hours.The only thing a man can do for ten hours is ‪#‎work‬. - honeya

My thoughts produce emotions which produces action; thus, the action is the outcome of the thought. Show me a man's actions and I can tell you of his thoughts. What are your thoughts? - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I stared out at the waves. "Why am I here?" I thought. Finally it came to me. But it was too late. I was a terrible lifeguard. - Alex Bosworth

We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity. - Robert Fanney

I don't think anyone could really know her, just as the peak of her struggle blooms, she again appearered to have held it all together when the whole world; would have thought, she'd fall Apart. - Nikki Rowe

The self centred disregard for anything living outside of me , is pure solipsism. One may feel the world is pure evil but its " I " who filters the thought through "my "own un - coping mind, seeking complete annihilation of the world for my own self relief ! - BinYamin Gulzar

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

You make me smile like the sun, fall out bed, sing like a bird, dizzy in my head. Spin like a record crazy on a sunday night. You make me dance like a fool, forget how to breath, shine like the sun buzz like a bee, just the thought of you can drive me wild. Oh you make me smile. -- - Uncle Kracker

Depressed beyond what I'd previously thought possible, I stripped, showered, and slipped on a fresh pair of jeans and a tee shirt and headed for my mom's, trying to figure out why a bank would charge twenty dollars for insufficient funds when they know you don't have it. - Kit Frazier

Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing. - Colleen Houck

My words are within the rimBut No rim can bind my Thought. - Kartik Mehta

To all the motherless daughters out there; may your heartache serve you in the best of ways. May your grief give you a better understanding of yourself, may your sentiment allow you to express and create, and may your love expand beyond what you ever thought possible. - Kayko Tamaki

What is alienation? Thought. - Marty Rubin

I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again."No.""I want to.""Well, you go then."You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it - Lucy Christopher

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. - Henry Miller

But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn't a strong enough drug now. By writing it all down (all? - no: one thought in a hundred) I believe I get a little outside it. That's how I'd defend it to H. But ten to one she'd see a hole in the defence. - C.S. Lewis

I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake. - Bob Hudson

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea. - Mahatma Gandhi

I have thought too much to stoop to action. - Adam De L'Isle

If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God! - George Whitefield

If you could observe every thought in your brain the magnitude of it's vastness would drive you insane. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

After all, he thought he was God.

grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. - J.R.R. Tolkien

When you move something, you discover new meanings in it, Kristina thought, watching them. - Molly Gloss

When my mother died, I thought I’d drown in sorrow. But my grandmother said something very wise, and I’ve always held it close to my heart. She said that not even the sea is infinite, and neither is grief. - T. Frohock

I am grateful to those who have betrayed me… They thought they were just stabbing me in the back, but they were also cutting me free from their poisonous life. - Steve Maraboli

Thought is my strength and love is my power. - Debasish Mridha

Freedom of thought is meaningless without the freedom to act. - Marty Rubin

and those who were seen smiling without any reason were thought to be insane by those who could not feel the love that existed in the air! - Anamika Mishra

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. - Charles Caleb Colton

It is to the prodigals...that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning. - Simone Weil

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. - Alfred North Whitehead

When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now, when I'm old, I know it is. - Oscar Wilde

Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap. - Florence King

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch

The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought. - C.G. Rousing