Thoughts Quotes
5764 quotes by 2727 authors
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I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat.
— Rick Riordan
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Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all…
— Howard Zinn
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You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they…
— Samuel R. Delany
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healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my…
— David Levithan
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Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the…
— Sylvia Plath
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That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were,…
— Walter Mosley
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When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are—or, in this case,…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they…
— Marilyn Monroe
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-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
— Alan Lightman
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I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and…
— Leo Tolstoy
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What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd…
— Julian Barnes
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A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own…
— Linda Howard
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Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet…
— Washington Irving
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We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after…
— Patrick deWitt
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We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge…
— Jonathan Stroud
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Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?
— Marie Lu
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First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there…
— Terry Pratchett
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You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.
— Matthew Quick
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When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely…
— Jay-Z
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