Thoughtful Quotes
582 Thoughtful quotes by 408 unique authors
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They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I…
— Jennifer Egan
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...Generally people don't recomend this type of book at all. It is far too interesting. Perhaps you have had other books recomended to you. Perhaps,…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome…
— Kristin Cashore
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The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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sensitive," I tried. Sam translated, "squishy." "creative." "Dangerously Emo." "thoughtful." Feng shui.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working…
— Kathryn Stockett
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She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't…
— Gary Paulsen
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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person was who said…
— Chelsea Handler
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Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward…
— Patrick Ness
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And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But…
— Mary Oliver
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The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.
— Terence McKenna
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But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy,…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short…
— Susan Cain
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If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting…
— Kristin Cashore
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I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of…
— Philip Zimbardo
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In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents,…
— Paul Tillich
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Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children -…
— Jessica Valenti
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The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color…
— Erin Morgenstern
Who Wrote These Thoughtful Quotes
408 authors contributed a total of 582 Thoughtful Quotes, led by these top contributors: