You Thought Quotes

574 You Thought quotes by 415 unique authors

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and… — Bill Gates
In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that… — Mitch Albom
You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story. — Patricia Briggs
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way… — Jennifer Weiner
In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's… — Jodi Picoult
All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought. — Mitch Albom
Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they… — Mitch Albom
...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those… — Douglas Coupland
For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./… — Homer
The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes twist everything. You… — Sheldon Vanauken
It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times… — Tom Stoppard
My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him,… — Unknown Author
When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was… — Dashiell Hammett
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be. — James Jones
Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you… — Elizabeth Moon
But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you… — Meg Cabot
Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt… — Nicole Krauss
Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end? — Judy Blume
A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might… — Betty Smith
I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering… — William Goldman
If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised — Jacqueline Carey
It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially… — Sarah Dessen
One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was… — Patricia Briggs
One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I… — Elizabeth Gaskell
That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much… — Ann Patchett

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