Top 1200 Lost In Thought Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When I published my first work, I thought I would never be able to go back to Lebanon. I thought they'd arrest me at the airport. I thought I would change literature as we know it. I thought I'd have men lining up at my door wanting to be my boyfriend. But later I discovered that no one read the book. Or no one cared. Right now, I have only one book translated into Arabic. Someday, maybe if the Syrian regime falls, there will be others, but probably another regime will come into power and it will employ just as much censorship.

It's interesting that stepping out of thought was actually triggered by a thought.

The replacement of negative thought with positive thought brings about a spiritual and physical change that can heal.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

Allen Ginsburg was wrong about a lot of things, but especially when he said, 'First thought, best thought.'

The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.

Thought is not reality; yet it is through Thought that our realities are created.

I lived in Arizona, and I thought Florida was in California because I thought oranges came from the same place.

I was approached by Avon which took me by surprise, cause I thought "why me?" I thought it would be Olga, but they wanted me to be the face of their fragrance and since filming Bond I have recorded an ad that looks great and obviously the stills. It's brilliant because I never thought I would get to do anything like that and it is a lovely opportunity.

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.

I've been going to 'Supernatural' conventions, so they tend to be big 'Lost' fans and big 'Supernatural' fans, but it's usually for both of those. Walking on the street, people are really, really into 'Lost.' But on the conventions circuit, it's Lucifer.

Ironically, I originally wrote the tweet with Jews and thought, That might give offense. And so I thought I better change it.

You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

Love must be the first thought and the last thought of the day, if you wish to live in peace and happiness.

I'll always have the memories of guys I lost in Vietnam. And I've lost friends since the war, but I'll always have the memories. The riches are great, but riches aren't everything, because when you go you can only take your memories and your word and your honor to the grave with you.

We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.

I always thought, 'Wow, I know I have an important story to tell,' but I never really thought it would happen.

When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.

After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought.

I thought I was decent at table tennis, but when I saw Ross Barkley and Raheem Sterling, I thought, 'maybe not'.

I thought all comedy was stupid. I went to watch a friend do stand-up and I thought absolutely everyone was terrible.

Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.

The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life.

I thought kissing was good with girls, but I always thought you know it probably could be better, so there was nothing really.

“No thought lives in your head rent-free.” Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.

Prior to having babies, I thought - I thought I was so busy, and now I realize just how ignorant I was.

The highest thought is always a thought which contains joy.

When you're trying to create something and you need to hang out, in not knowing, in all the cracks and spaces where you feel lost, and you need to endure them, and have new ideas come out of that emptiness, well, the Internet is what we do when we feel lost, you know? Like, you go online or you check your email when you don't know what to do next, and so it's not helpful, in that sense.

Every thought that you have impacts you. Shift from a thought that weakens to one that strengthens you.

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.

I've never thought that I would see any man of color, not just a black president, but any man of color, I never thought that I would live to see that. I thought maybe my grandchildren would, but I never thought I would. So when Barack Obama first started to run I was like, "I've never heard of this guy - he probably doesn't have a shot." But then he started picking up steam and that piqued my interest.

I actually had another motivation for letting Steven [Sebring] film us. After I'd been out of the public eye for 16 years, lost my friends and lost my husband, some of my confidence had been undermined. Steven made the process of filming fun; I could pretend that we were in something like Don't Look Back.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison.

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

I never thought of myself as beautiful. I thought I was OK, certainly good enough to get along.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

Just because we have a thought, doesn't mean it is a thought worth having.

There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.

I didn't really have an interest in politics when I first entered the workforce. What I wanted to do was help people who grew up like me. When I was a kid growing up in Tucson, my father lost his job and we lost everything - including our home. We lived in an abandoned gas station for two years until we were able to get back on our feet.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

Yes, I've been very low, I thought I won't survive. I thought I won't make it, not just in my career but in life too.

Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about it on both sides and people who thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever done and people who thought it was just an unpleasant job and people who thought they should have never done it at all, so there were opinions of all kinds.

I never thought I would tweet - I thought it was too dangerous.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

Most people at CMU thought it was perfectly reasonable for the U.S. to invade Nicaragua. They somehow thought they owned it.

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

With 'Crazy Story,' I thought it from the back to the front. I thought about the ending first, then what's going to happen.

You can say that all you want, but even in the little time that I've been in this industry, I've learned that it isn't exactly what you expect, so you've got to have a level head. I thought people would dig it. I thought people would enjoy it. It's AMC. I thought people would be fans. But, I did not think we would be the best new show on television.

Believe in miracles. I have seen so many of them come when every other indication would say that hope was lost. Hope is never lost. If those miracles do not come soon or fully or seemingly at all, remember the Savior's own anguished example: if the bitter cup does not pass, drink it and be strong, trusting in happier days ahead.