They Thought Quotes
277 They Thought quotes by 231 unique authors
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Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they…
— Utah Phillips
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they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things
— Charles Bukowski
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I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get…
— Donald Miller
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Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought…
— Jay Asher
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[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I…
— Tracy Hickman
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All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s…
— Conan O'Brien
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It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one…
— Robert Hughes
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If people knew who the angels were, they would be very nice when they saw one and would still do their same evil garbage when…
— Carol Plum-Ucci
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What happened to cause the jail fight? (Maggie) They thought it would be fun to knock around the ‘kid’ and show off their manhood. I…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They…
— Jack Kerouac
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Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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You’re being remanded into Gourish custody…dead. (a Partini) ‘Cause let’s face it, dead was just easier. Or so they thought.’ (Syn)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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When I first moved to LA, no one could understand a thing I said, you would think I was speaking another language. Every time I…
— Miley Cyrus
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But I got this far, didn’t I?” he said slowly. “They thought I’d die in the attempt, but I’m here . . . and you’re…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked…
— C.S. Lewis
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I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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I hope they remember the good stuff, when I was a baby, a toddler, when they still had hopes and dreams for their little girl,…
— Julie Anne Peters
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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
— Frida Kahlo
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Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you. Maybe you didn't give us enough…
— Jay Asher
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Rose: My mum's here. The Doctor: Oh, that's just what I need! Don't you dare make this place domestic! Mickey Smith: You ruined my life,…
— Russell T Davies
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They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior
— Romain Gary
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The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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