Top 100 Thought The Quotes
#1. Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations had used accounting gimmickry to inflate their profits, many investors thought the crisis at Enron was an isolated case.
Alex Berenson
#2. When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future. Such clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem-making. Just this moment as it is.
Eckhart Tolle
#3. I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.
Beeban Kidron
#4. The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.
Michael Behe
#5. He said the dead had souls, but when I asked him
How that could be - I thought the dead were souls,
He broke my trance. Don't that make you suspicious
That there's something the dead are keeping back?
Yes, there's something the dead are keeping back.
Robert Frost
#6. I found that I couldn't muster any belief in a literal heaven or hell, anyway. I thought the best we could all do was to look after one another and clean up the various hells we've made right here on earth.
Octavia E. Butler
#7. Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified assholes means you've grown up.
Crystal Woods
#8. Oh, do not cease at all; I thought the nightingale sang but at night; or if thou needst must cease, then let my lips touch the sweet lips that can such music make.
Oscar Wilde
#9. I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn't get any worse.
Peter Cameron
#10. I was the kind of gal who thought the nightgown drawer was where old T-shirts went to die and
Karen Chance
#11. People get so frightened for no reason, but I'll tell you, to live with no purpose is a far more frightening proposition ... You bring yourself to say yes when you always thought the only possible answer was no, and your whole world changes.
Liz Rosenberg
#12. any thought that gives you peace is a positive thought. The more you fill your mind with positive thoughts, the better your state of mind will be. And that naturally results in better physical health.
Om Swami
#13. We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think.
Eric Idle
#14. Thing to act. Act with thought. -The Pythian Scrolls.
Through the Oracle's Mist
Aedan Byrnes
#15. Only in summer-phase is it carnivorous.
If there was an award for understatement, I thought, the Tyr would trounce all competition.
C.S. Friedman
#16. There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat eating peas.
Dana Gould
#17. Fortunately, when I was in the palace, I got some practice stabbing him in the heart. This time, I was much better at it. And did it ten times instead of once. Then cut off his head." "I always thought the secret of your success was your thoroughness.
Edward W. Robertson
#18. I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.
Hyman George Rickover
#19. I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.
Joe Frazier
#20. I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.
Ronald Reagan
#21. It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'
Ellen Muth
#22. With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.
Galileo Galilei
#23. I remember quite well that 10,000 audience sang with us three on the spot, and ever since then, I always thought the Chinese audience are the greatest audience.
Luciano Pavarotti
#24. The librarian thought the problem was just that the right books weren't breeding with each other and proposed a forced mating program. The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.
Lev Grossman
#25. In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him. The
Arthur Conan Doyle
#26. I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.
John Green
#27. That's the way with 'em all: it's as if they thought the world 'ud be new-made because they're to be married.
George Eliot
#28. Of all the gifts God gave me, he thought, the greatest one is you.
Sylvain Reynard
#29. It's going to suck for a long time. Then, one day you'll wake up and it will suck a little less. And just when you thought the worst was over, you'll see something, or smell something, and it will flatten you all over again. That's what's going to happen, babe.
Nat Russo
#30. I thought the best place to hide a tree was in the woods.
Patrick Holland
#31. I thought the whole point of having a gay brother was that they were supposed to be all cool and shit. I've got a defective gay.
T.J. Klune
#32. I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.
Stephen Mangan
#33. I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#34. Every time I thought the bag must be empty, he brought yet another item out. It was like he'd hijacked Mary Poppins's luggage on her way to a fetish weekend.
Abigail Barnette
#35. He thought the police would have to do better; everyone knew the cult boys had more modern guns
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#36. I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.
Margaret Atwood
#37. They [political leaders ] thought the only problem was the banking system, and if they fixed the banking system, all would be fine. But the banking system and the mortgage problem were symptomatic of some deeper problems, and evidently they still haven't recognized those deeper problems.
Joseph Stiglitz
#38. I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.
Lana Del Rey
#40. There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes.
Joan Robinson
#41. There the old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. A man with these gifts was rich and was a great spirit who was admired in the same way that the gussaks admired a man with money and goods.
Jean Craighead George
#42. The Self is not in the realm of thought. The Self is in the gap between our thoughts. The cosmic psyche whispers to us softly in the gap between our thoughts.
Deepak Chopra
#43. Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#44. Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
Sri Aurobindo
#45. The Russian Dolls would sue a snowman for sexual harassment if they thought the sun would stay away.
Jonathan Dunne
#46. But, objectively, beyond the level of thought, the drunk on the street corner is equally a child of God.
Chris Matakas
#47. But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.
Robert Rauschenberg
#48. The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
Douglas Adams
#50. I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.
Maidie Norman
#51. I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
Natasha Henstridge
#52. As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.
Steve Buyer
#53. Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.
W.G. Sebald
#54. Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility of human beings.
Paul Harding
#55. I think 3D can be an incredible thing on a movie and a terrible thing for a movie, depending on what kind of movie it is. And I've seen movies where I thought the 3D really enhanced the experience, and sometimes where I thought it just detracted from it.
Olivia Thirlby
#56. I thought the power you had was in your arms and legs and the weapons you bear?"
"Don't forget my cock.
Gavin G. Smith
#57. The Produce Gem grins from half-way down the chip aisle. "And I thought the cucumber choosing was detailed."
Cash.
He was watching.
He saw me breaking it down.
He saw my invisible bad summer-time fashion choices.
Pella Grace
#58. Everything is made to perish; the wonder of anything at all is that it has not already done so. No, he thought. The wonder of anything is that it was made in the first place. What persists beyond this cataclysm of making and unmaking?
P. Harding
#59. When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted.
Hilary Rosen
#60. I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.
John Lydon
#61. Proverb: The caterpillar thought the world was ending, then it turned into a butterfly,
Marian Phair
#62. I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.
Joan Didion
#63. If he ever sang, she thought, the song would be so unbearably gorgeous, it would soar over spires of stone and steel, and pierce the hearts of humans and other creatures, and he could rule the world.
Thea Harrison
#64. The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, "To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls." Another one said, "To describe blow-jobs artistically.
Kurt Vonnegut
#65. When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.
Enrique Vila-Matas
#66. When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.
Charles Lamb
#67. Home, I thought: the place where I was destined to live out my days, alone, and unloved- until I died and was eaten by my cat.
Janet Goss
#68. I thought 'God, what have I done?' ... I realized I would be in serious trouble. I thought the best way out of the mess was to make sure she could not tell anybody.
Peter Sutcliffe
#69. Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
Italo Calvino
#70. I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.
January Jones
#71. Because it was the endless wanting that would break you, I thought. The constant craving for a love that might never be fulfilled that would bring you low, bit by bit, until one day you'd no longer be able to recognize any part of yourself.
John Burnham Schwartz
#72. I've always thought the expression 'passion project' was kind of a cliche until I started working on 'Big Shot' for 'ESPN.'
Kevin Connolly
#73. The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#74. The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.
Orhan Pamuk
#75. Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.
Albert Einstein
#76. I'd never seen men hold each other. I thought the only things they were allowed to do was shake hands or fight.
Rita Mae Brown
#77. I don't know how the Wolfman knows all this, but he's not wrong. My warm cheeks turn scalding hot.
"Your shame is a good sign. You may break sooner than I thought. The breaking is good. It purifies.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#78. A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.
Miguel Nicolelis
#79. Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
Maeve Binchy
#80. Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.
Eli Wallach
#81. With every beat of my heart, I believe she thought keeping her secret was in everyone's best interest. She thought the secret would be buried with her, never to be revealed. She thought wrong.
Misa Rush
#82. The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.
Frederic Bastiat
#83. The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
Elon Musk
#84. She had thought the chewing and digesting were meant literally and wondered, horrified, why Mo had hung on his workshop door the words of someone who vandalized books.
Cornelia Funke
#85. Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
Don DeLillo
#86. This room is the strangest thing Melanie has ever seen. Of course, she's starting to realise that she hasn't seen all that much, but there are more things here of more baffling variety than she would have thought the whole world could hold.
M.R. Carey
#87. Aunt-Sister said Charleston had a case of the grandeurs. Up till I was eight or so, I thought the grandeurs was a shitting sickness.
Sue Monk Kidd
#88. I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field ... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end.
Michelle Rodriguez
#89. I've always thought the best way to teach a kid not to be scared of the dark is to fill his daylight hours with as much horror as possible.
Emo Philips
#90. Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Francis Bacon
#91. What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest ... The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon.
Gabriel Orozco
#92. If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.
Richard Hamming
#93. I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana's country were about as big as a tree could get," he said, "but the ones around here are so tall that they probably tickle the moon's tummy when she goes by.
David Eddings
#94. It was as if, Pulaski sometimes thought, the '60s had tipped the entire country on end and shaken it like a box of cereal until all the flakes ended up in the East Village.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#95. I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.
George Foreman
#96. How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers - I thought. The wives.
Katharine Hepburn
#97. I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.
Judy Holliday
#98. He had read somewhere that wolves could eat up to twenty pounds of meat in a single meal and he thought the dog was coming close. She ... just ... kept ... eating.
Gary Paulsen
#99. I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates ... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.
Clive James
#100. How many feelings can one heart hold?... Infinite, Luna thought. The way the universe is infinite. It is light and dark and endless motion; it is space and time, and space within space, and time within time. And she knew: there is no limit to what the heart can carry.
Kelly Barnhill
