If Thought Quotes

#1. If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Virginia Woolf

#3. And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

Algernon H. Blackwood

#4. As if thought were not our most passionate, our most ardent aspect.

Carole Maso

#5. For if thought that exceeds what has yet been
thought were not possible, the infinite would not be possible, and self/
itself or subjectivity its intermediary transcendence/ incendiary.

Erin Moure

#6. For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength and breath
And the want
Of thought is death
Then am I
A happy fly
If I live
Or if I die

William Blake

#7. What if thought is not free? What if memory is a prison, society a lie? Sometimes I look around and all I hear is screaming, screaming, screaming - what if you are the enlightened one?

Claire North

#8. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

George Orwell

#9. But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

George Orwell

#10. I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours.

Nikola Tesla

#11. We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#12. If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Feynman

#13. It will be a nuisance if he even suspects I spare the merest moment to ponder the Intruder, and he would willfully misinterpret it. I think of her only because I am concerned with their security. The thought was so lame and uncertain in his own mind, it made him growl.

K.M. Shea

#14. True, we might never have arrived, but the fact is we did. If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worth worrying about so much.

Mikhail Lermontov

#15. The song 'If I Had a Hammer' is geared toward people who don't have a hammer. Maybe before I had a hammer I thought I'd hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening. But once you get a hammer, you find you don't really hammer as much as you thought you would.

Ellen DeGeneres

#16. If I die of heatstroke, I want to be reincarnated as a beauty queen, I thought. Ma-experience ko man lang na sumakay ng pink na float at hindi maglakad habang nauusukan ng tambutso.

Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla

#17. I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.

Chris Hegedus

#18. I focused very hard on the dead geranium in his line of vision. I thought if I could make it bloom he would have his answer. In my heaven it bloomed. In my heaven geranium petals swirled in eddies up to my waist. On Earth nothing happened ... I stood alone in a sea of bright petals.

Alice Sebold

#19. Persistence is victory. Just . . . keep . . . going. It doesn't matter if things aren't going the way you thought they would or if you're facing a disappointment. The only defeat is in quitting. If you keep going, you're winning.

Mara Schiavocampo

#20. You used to do that. If you hid your face, you thought we couldn't see you just because you couldn't see us.

V.C. Andrews

#21. Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?

Edward Young

#22. But you hardley even know him"she said."He could be a serial killer"
"I did have that thought.I checked the apartment out,but if his got an ice cooler full of arms in it,I havent seen it yet.Anyway he seems pretty since.

Cassandra Clare

#23. We struck up a conversation, but took pains to keep to small talk at first. We touched on the most trivial of topics: I asked if he thought the fate of man was unalterable. He thought it was.

Gunter Grass

#24. He just looked at her as if she were an idiot. Or a woman. It was Tillie's experience that most men thought they were one and the same.

Julia Quinn

#25. I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.

Ruth Wilson

#26. If he thought at all, but I don't believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would join like drops of water ...

J.M. Barrie

#27. If one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow - sure.

James Allen

#28. At first Ifemelu thought Kimberly's apologizing sweet, even if unnecessary, but she had begun to feel a flash of impatience, because Kimberly's repeated apologies were tinged with self-indulgence, as though she believed that she could, with apologies, smooth all the scalloped surfaces of the world.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#29. He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, You are an untidy person.

Jim Butcher

#30. How useful Mr. Carver's Esperanto would be, she thought. (Only if everyone spoke it, of course.)

Kate Atkinson

#31. I've always thought that if I bury my feelings now, I can dig them up later when I have time to deal with them.

J.A. London

#32. They are pretty good at improvising, but God help us if they are given time to think. Dean Atchison

Robert Dallek

#33. It's funny. I thought she'd live through anything."
Charlie said, "Me too. I figured even if there was a nuclear war, it would still leave radioactive cockroaches and your mum.

Neil Gaiman

#34. I'm not sure what kind of love you mean, baby, but if you mean do I want you to be with me forever, that I can't bear the thought of being without you as my lover, my best friend, my whole world....one day my wife, and my baby mama, then yes, I Love you, Love you!

S.E. Hall

#35. There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#36. If you add your hot passion to the cold attitude of another person, it becomes lukewarm. Don't stand on the toes of dwarfs; stand on the shoulders of giants!

Israelmore Ayivor

#37. If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.

Eric Schmidt

#38. If you want to get things you can't buy in a store, you have to do things never thought of before.

Dr. Seuss

#39. Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.

Israelmore Ayivor

#40. I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.

Kate Ashfield

#41. If I cared what people thought I probably wouldn't be a fantasy author.

Nicholas Taylor

#42. Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.

Poppy Z. Brite

#43. If we were all responsible for the misdeeds of the governments that represent us, thought Isabel, then the moral burden would be just too great.

Alexander McCall Smith

#44. To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him ... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.

Salman Rushdie

#45. The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?

Albert Pinkham Ryder

#46. I thought Marilla Cuthburt was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but I guess she didn't make much of a mistake after all. If I'd a child like Anne in the house all the time I'd be a better and happier woman.

L.M. Montgomery

#47. While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

Douglas MacArthur

#48. Said I'd lose you if I wasn't careful, and then he took you away from me. I thought I'd lost you.

H.M. Ward

#49. God's word is the way to God himself. If you miss the word of God, you will miss God. Jesus is the word!

Israelmore Ayivor

#50. As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#51. I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't.

Tom Berenger

#52. When joy is LOST, hope can easily FIND it ... It's only your HOPE, that knows the where about of your JOY! If you lose hope you lose everything!

Israelmore Ayivor

#53. You simply never know about people,' thought Elizabeth. 'You think because they're timid they'll always be timid, or because they're mean they'll always be mean. But they can change awfully quickly if they are treated right.

Enid Blyton

#54. How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.

Catherynne M Valente

#55. Sad to say, multi-tasking is beyond me. I read one book at a time all the way through. If I'm reviewing the book, I have to write the review before I start reading any other book. I especially hate it when the phone rings and interrupts my train of thought.

Michael Dirda

#56. I always thought that the shortest distance between failure and success is luck. It so appears now that if you account for the wait time, the shortest distance between failure and success is action.

Majid Kazmi

#57. Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around.

Bruce Willis

#58. Everyone, everywhere, and all the time, used to laugh at me when I was growing up. So, when I was around 18, I thought, 'I'll become a comedian, and then if everyone laughs at me, I'll be famous.' So I went on stage one night and, for the first time in my life, everyone stopped laughing at me.

Emo Philips

#59. If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

David Levithan

#60. Something was nagging at me that I was trying to resist. Was it then or was it later that the thought came to me: if God really does exist, and is not just a myth, it must have a consequence for the whole of life. It was not a comfortable thought.

Jennifer Worth

#61. When it is mid week, pause and ponder! The very single days we disregard are what become the very years we wished to have used effectively and efficiently. If we disregard today, we shall remember our had I know tomorrow. Time changes therefore think of the changing times.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#62. Thomas knew what he thought. Those images would never leave - the Gladers would be haunted by the horrible things that had happened in the Maze for the rest of their lives. He figured that most if not all of them would have major psychological problems. Maybe even go completely nutso.

James Dashner

#63. I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, 'Check out this song - what do you think?' That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I'm just truly talented.

Julian Casablancas

#64. My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

Holly Near

#65. If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.

Bruce Dickinson

#66. I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.

Eula Biss

#67. Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?

Neale Donald Walsch

#68. I don't even know if people should use the working fucking and angel in the same thought structure, but shit. She really looks like a fucking angel..

Colleen Hoover

#69. There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.

Rachel Cusk

#70. I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to write a story that took place in the Black Hills, I should find a way to include this history in it.

Will Hobbs

#71. The bookseller said it's in two parts, and this is the first. I thought that next year, if we keep saving, we can get the second -

Anthony Doerr

#72. Like most children, I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

Maya Angelou

#73. If she knew anything, it was nothing at all,except what she thought she knew.

Jasmine Sandozz

#74. I spend these days in confusion, trying my best to fathom the significance of that shade....

Trying to fathom the suitable answers to my ambiguities, if they can be called as such." - Basil

Amna Iqbal

#75. If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment ...

Edgar Allan Poe

#76. The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.

Alex Berenson

#77. I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: You want to what? I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.

Phil Esposito

#78. What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself.
"First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.

Melina Marchetta

#79. Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.

Richard Bach

#80. I've often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there's a fight to be won. If a
woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

Karen Hawkins

#81. The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in - as if he'd been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

Denis Johnson

#82. I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#83. I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

Steven Wright

#84. I wonder if anybody ever decided to commit suicide, then thought; but first I'm going to stop by that taco place I like so much.

Dov Davidoff

#85. It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby." It's true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#86. I thought if I quit looking around for you, I would forget you. I thought if I avoided you, I could get you out of my head. But it didn't work.

Rachel Gibson

#87. Drag you back if you do not wish to go. Though ... the prince consort did mention the phrase, throw away the key, at one point.
I couldn't be sure, but I thought I saw Keirran gulp.

Julie Kagawa

#88. Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn't recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting.
When he touched Eleanor's hand, he recognized her. He knew.

Rainbow Rowell

#89. People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.

Noah Cicero

#90. If we don't look into hope and fear, seeing a thought arise, seeing the chain reaction that follows - if we don't train in sitting with that energy without getting snared by the drama, then we're always going to be afraid.

Pema Chodron

#91. I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.

Jim Carrey

#92. You pronounced your words as if you don't acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?

Mikhail Bulgakov

#93. I couldn't stand in front of any camera, and I couldn't go to places where there were a lot of people. I thought people would criticize me if I smiled, or even if I just stayed still.

Im Yoona

#94. It's wherever you are. If it's tapped into any of your senses, it knows where you are and what you're doing."
Oh no, I thought, my spirits sinking. I hadn't considered that. Did that mean nothing I did was ever anymore?
"Even in the bathroom?" the Gasman's eyes widened with surprise.

James Patterson

#95. I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can play like that, why can't I?'

Lang Lang

#96. I thought you'd say it might be a trap.'
'It might be trap,' he said.
'It doesn't feel like a trap.'
'Well it wouldn't, would it? Not if it was a good trap.

Philip Reeve

#97. You ever heard the phrase 'nice guys finish last'? It's true. Been true my whole life. So, maybe it'd be nice for me for a change, if someone thought I was worth fightin' for.

Lorelei James

#98. But then this morning I had to tell him goodbye. And he held me and kissed me so much, I thought I might die if he let go.
But I didn't die. Because he let go and here I am. Still living. Still breathing.
Just barely.

Colleen Hoover

#99. No, I haven't decided where to live yet. He thought, I haven't decided if I want to live yet.

David Anthony Durham

#100. Alejandro, who thought he was a wit. And he was, if you put a "nit" in front of it,

Karen Chance