If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will…

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

— Confucius

“I like for you to be still: it is as though you are absent distant and full of sorrow as though you had died…

— Pablo Neruda

Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply…

— Suzanne Fields

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn’t paying attention,

— Eileen Wilks

“One man, she thought then, could build or destroy, could change time and history, for better or worse. One man. Or one woman.”

— Barbara O'Neal

It's the man I thought you were that I can't let go.

— Ann Skaj

The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

“I've heard two ways of looking at it. One says the silent man is the wise man & the other that a man without…

— John Steinbeck

“Oh,” he said. “I see.” But he did not see, exactly, though he believed that he could have been wrong and that she was…

— William Faulkner

“And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because…

— Robert Penn

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

— John Selden

It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.

— Gloria Grahame

“I had a salad. If I were to say that today's tomatoes were an index of the decline of Western man I should be…

— Russell Hoban

“How many of us have gazed at a man and thought, ‘yes, him,’ only to have him pay his attentions to someone else? And…

— Suzanne Enoch