You Thought Quotes
574 You Thought quotes by 415 unique authors
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be…
— Garrison Keillor
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Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was…
— Matthew McConaughey
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When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years…
— Robert Redford
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And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is…
— Lynn Redgrave
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I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions…
— Cass Sunstein
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If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were…
— James Surowiecki
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It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to…
— Ice T
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America…
— Andy Warhol
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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
— Langston Hughes
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It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually…
— Daniel Handler
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You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.
— Edith Wharton
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Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were…
— Lawrence Block
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It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?
— Terry Pratchett
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Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean…
— Lorrie Moore
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Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a…
— Margaret Atwood
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Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not…
— Stevie Smith
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Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover…
— Galway Kinnell
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If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience,…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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What if you believed that everything in life was like a prize? What if you thought of the world as a big random drawing, and…
— Dan Chaon
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That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to…
— Adrienne Rich
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If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
— Richard P. Feynman
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She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that at all. Maybe…
— Ann Brashares
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