Top 1200 Thought Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The highest thought is always a thought which contains joy.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

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

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

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

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

Every time we have a thought that's not a thought of kindness towards others - then we've left the field of intention and, therefore, lost the power of the field of intention, as well. The whole idea is to connect yourself back to this field from which all things emanate, to return to your source and watch it in every thought that you have.

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

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

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

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

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

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

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

People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.

I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

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

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

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

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

It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Music is my thing. In fact, that's what I wanted to do. I thought of myself as a musician. I had never thought about acting.

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

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

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.'

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.