Top 100 Thought That Quotes
#1. I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.
Ruben Dario
#2. Hearing it, I wonder how I could have ever thought that the birdcall I heard earlier sounded anything like the Officer's whistle.
Ally Condie
#3. They thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
they were simply not
crazy enough
in the head
to sit down to a
typer
and let the words bang
out.
they didn't want to
write
they wanted to
succeed at
writing.
Charles Bukowski
#4. Once, as he inhaled with his customary vehemence, I had a thought that made my armpits come alive.
Martin Amis
#5. That was my favorite dagger.
She had a favorite dagger? Seriously? And she thought that I was a freak.
Jennifer Estep
#6. For a while, I just thought that I wanted to be an illustrator because that's all I wanted to do. I also did some sculpting. It was always very artsy and very feminine, everything that I did.
Jason Wu
#7. There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.
G.K. Chesterton
#9. To be really honest, I think if anybody did derive comfort from the fact that 'there's always someone worse off than yourself,' they'd have to be a pretty sad and sick individual. If I've sprained my wrist, I'm not made happier by the thought that someone somewhere has broken their leg!
Stuart Hill
#10. Logan grinned knowingly. I thought that might get you riled. You want her. Claim her, Galen, before someone else does.
Donna Grant
#11. Break me into pieces,
Small enough to fit
In the palm of your hand, baby.
I never thought that you would save me,
break a piece
for your friends
break a piece
just for luck
break a piece
sell it sell it
break me break me.
Maggie Stiefvater
#12. I am most proud about the science I've done with my own two hands because I have always thought that even if your life path takes you into a leadership position outside the area you were known for, your legitimacy remains in that first field.
Gustav Nossal
#13. I'd always thought that 'NYPD Blue' really would open those doors. While I think it created a much broader template for cable, I don't think it really did that much for network television.
Steven Bochco
#14. If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
Black Elk
#15. I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.
Henry Rollins
#16. Worrying won't prevent the worst outcome. I've learned to live in the moment, which is not my natural tendency. I've always thought that if I worried about something enough, it wouldn't happen. I forgot to worry about Parkinson's.
Tracy Pollan
#17. One of the greatest gifts we can give someone is our undivided attention
a thought that whispers constantly in the ear of any author who respects their readers.
Ella J. Fraser
#18. You are perfect exactly as you are. With all your flaws and problems, there's no need to change anything. All you need to change is the thought that you aren't good enough.
J. Cole
#19. Heretofore my life has been calm as a summer's day; but who knows when winter storms may rise, and often I have thought that I was born to know wind and rain and lightning as well as peace and sunshine.
H. Rider Haggard
#20. But when I met you, I saw your light and I loved you at once. And I thought that at this stage in my life, I had nothing to lose by being honest with the woman I wanted to have by my side.
Paulo Coelho
#21. No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.
Jesse Ball
#22. Without his phone, he seemed to breathe easier, and Bella realized, she thought that held true for most people.
Melissa Foster
#23. I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they're both amazing ways to understand human nature.
Salman Rushdie
#24. The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.
Alice Hoffman
#25. I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.
Samantha Bee
#26. You'll be a rumor. A whisper. The thought that wakes the bastards of this world sweating in the nevernight. The last thing you will ever be, girl, is someone's hero.
Jay Kristoff
#27. We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women.
Jessie Daniel Ames
#28. Very quickly the lawyers in the Justice Department pulled together a set of recommendations about how we ought to defend the law as a constitutional matter. And it was the lawyers in the Justice Department who thought that it was important to include the tax power argument as part of it.
Donald Verrilli Jr.
#29. I've wanted this for so long."
Emmaline thought that a lovely thing to say. "We barely know each other."
"No. We've known each other forever, my dearest one, always known the other of us was out there somewhere in the world, waiting. We only just happened to meet today.
Kasey Michaels
#30. I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.
George Mikes
#31. It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Marquis De Sade
#32. There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Angelina Jolie
#33. She thought that one might not make a dent in the Great Sadness, but one could help make another person whole.
Peter Heller
#34. I thought that if I practiced doing melodies for a year or so at home, I would learn to think melodically, and when I went to work it would come out, and it did, on this album. What else was important to me ... ? I spend a lot of time in the grocery store, shopping.
Iggy Pop
#35. I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.
Jonathan Frakes
#36. But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.
Shelly Crane
#37. Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project.
Ato Essandoh
#38. Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
Terry Eagleton
#39. Nothing is as frightening as the thought that only blackness will greet you when you leave this life.
David Dalglish
#40. The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity
Theodor W. Adorno
#41. I thought that the main problem in the gay community is the lack of funding, I was wrong. The essential quality that this movement needs is courage and an ideal; without an ideal, nothing is possible.
Nikolay Alexeyev
#42. I thought that might have been the worst thing about losing someone, that moment between asleep and awake, when you had to remember and accept the loss again, relive that moment when your life changed, and you lost something dear.
R.K. Lilley
#43. It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way ... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
Aaron Paul
#44. I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.
Ethan Hawke
#45. So small as to be negligible.
It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost ... free.
Veronica Roth
#46. I thought ... that we could at least talk about books.
Cassandra Clare
#47. The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep." I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that's what I want to do with my life. That's the sound I want to try to make.
Booker T. Jones
#48. I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages anymore. I thought, "That's what I want to do with my life."
Markus Zusak
#49. I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.
John Gutfreund
#50. And here, in thought, to thee-
In thought that can alone,
Ascend thy empire and so be
A partner of thy throne,
By winged Fantasy,
My embassy is given,
Till secrecy shall knowledge be
In the environs of Heaven.
Edgar Allan Poe
#51. Belson came into the apartment with some crime-scene people and two homicide detectives.
"This guy," Charlie said, and looked at his notebook, "Spenser. He was impersonating a police officer."
Belson glanced at him. "We all thought that," Belson said, "when he was a cop.
Robert B. Parker
#52. It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.
Paul Van Dyk
#53. I had originally thought that a job at Starbucks might be below my abilities. But now i realized it might be beyond them. This job could be a areal challenge for me - mentally, emotionally, and physically.
Michael Gates Gill
#54. But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
Harry Houdini
#55. Celeste, for example, was fuming. I guessed if you had a lot of money, you got used to the idea of collecting it. And the thought that someone like me would be
Kiera Cass
#56. For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
Kate Grenville
#57. She had always thought that she wanted someone to love her beyond all reason. Someone who would slay a regiment of knights to save her the slightest inconvenience.
She'd been wrong. That sort of fool left nothing but a swath of bloody knights in his wake.
Courtney Milan
#58. Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.
Herman Bavinck
#59. The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.
Thomas Keating
#60. I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.
Annie Lennox
#61. If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin
Edna O'Brien
#62. My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive.
Maggie Stiefvater
#63. Leibniz thought that if we had a sufficiently logical notation, dispute and confusion would cease, and men would sit together and resolve their disputes by calculation.
Simon Blackburn
#64. I've always thought that love thrives on a certain kind of distance, that it requires an awed separateness to continue. Without that necessary remove, the physical minutiae of the other person grows ugly in its magnification.
Siri Hustvedt
#65. Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.
George Carlin
#66. As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.
Tiger Woods
#67. She thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night
Patrick Dennis
#68. Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.
Jones Very
#69. Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right.
Stephanie Zacharek
#70. I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.
John Perry Barlow
#71. I always thought that courageous people were those who were not afraid. Meeting Franciszka and her daughter, I realize that courageous people are afraid like everyone else. They just act despite the fear.
J.L. Witterick
#72. They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton ... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.
Anne Hutchinson
#73. Harry didn't say anything. He liked being back on speaking terms with Ron too much to speak his mind right now - but he somehow thought that Hermione had gotten the point much better than Ron had.
J.K. Rowling
#74. The bottom line, as Raul Hilberg put it, was that most people thought that, even if Jews shouldn't be killed, they weren't worth saving.
Victoria J. Barnett
#75. Years later I read a statement that said, "A tot of people have a wishbone, but they don't have a backbone." I thought, That's the truth. Wishing won't get us anything. We have got to dig in and do whatever we have to do to get
Joyce Meyer
#76. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world, the idea of somebody trying to solve mysteries. I would see conspiracies in everything. I think I believed in leprechauns longer than any of my fellow classmates because I tried to catch them.
Alex Hirsch
#77. If pretending to know was childish and pretending not to know was adult, then Punpun thought that he was still probably just a child.
Inio Asano
#78. Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#79. I always thought that funerals were meant for the living to say good-bye to a loved one. I never would have guessed that it's actually the other way around.
Anthony Greer
#80. They all thought that civilized Germans would not stand for anything really rough happening." Szilard held no such sanguine view, noting that the Germans themselves were paralyzed with cynicism, one of the uglier effects on morals of losing a major war.
Richard Rhodes
#81. They are structures that we build every time we engage in a thought that's just a little bit higher than a thought we had a moment before, or an activity that's just a little bit more noble than the activity we engaged in a moment before.
Ken Wilber
#82. ... me silent, serious, tormented by the thought that I was silent and serious. Especially together with Bendik, who chatted and laughed non-stop and was the type to say whatever came into his mind.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#83. I've sometimes thought ... that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.
James M. Barrie
#84. The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.
Thomas I. Emerson
#85. In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
Thucydides
#86. Dug looked for a flicker of humanity in her eyes. Nope, not a spark. "Do you know," he said, "I've always thought that people are about as happy as they decide to be." "What?" "Nothing.
Angus Watson
#87. I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality.
Scott Westerfeld
#88. I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.
Anna Sui
#89. Damen thought that if Laurent was holding his hand, he must be dying.
C.S. Pacat
#90. Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better ... Forget the competition and go at your own pace. Your only contest is with yourself.
William Zinsser
#91. A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?
Emilia Clarke
#92. Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.
Lord Dunsany
#93. They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.
Roland Joffe
#94. I've had moments of thinking maybe I should go on Twitter. It's something that I've been shy about, and I've thought that maybe I should do it.
Michelle Dockery
#95. I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd understand the scale and intensity of your feelings and act accordingly. That seemed fair to me, as if fairness were a measure the universe cared anything about.
Emma Cline
#96. The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
Saul Steinberg
#97. I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together.
Clive Barker
#98. I always thought that you having my child was our destiny,bt i can't even vibe with you sexually
Kanye West
#99. Gifts need not be expensive; after all, "it's the thuoght that counts." But I remind you, it is not the thought left in your head that counts; it is the gift that came out of the thought that communicates emotional love.
Gary Chapman
#100. I thought that you could not make a commitment until you were truly in love. What I know now is that you cannot love truly until you have made a commitment.
Kate Kerrigan
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