What You Thought Quotes

#1. One of the things that's fascinating about making movies is a movie when it's done and you start showing it to people, it reveals its impact, which is often times not what you thought.

Peter Berg

#2. Things happened the way they were supposed to, and it was no use trying to predict what was going to come next. People liked to think otherwise, but what you thought had no practical influence on what eventually happened. You can't think yourself well. You can't make yourself fall out of love.

Sarah Addison Allen

#3. I know you think you believe you understand what you thought I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is exactly what I meant.

Richard M. Nixon

#4. Between what you thought you wanted and what you wanted? Why did people have to be such a danger to themselves? She had had reasons for her choices. Good

Leah Stewart

#5. The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.

Melody Carstairs

#6. He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.

William Golding

#7. Happiness is a decision, not an experience. You can decide to be happy without what you thought you needed in order to be happy, and you will be. Your experience is the result of your decision, not the cause of it.

Neale Donald Walsch

#8. 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 better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

Lynn Redgrave

#9. The end of every game is an anti-climax. What you thought you would feel you don't feel, what you thought was so important isn't any more. It's the game that's exciting.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

#11. Had I known you had pure, or what you thought were pure intentions, in that silly mind of yours, I wouldn't have tried to kill you."
Philip let out a bark of laughter. "Well, as far as apologies go, that wasn't half bad. Not every day a man comes in and apologises for wishing you dead.

Rachel Van Dyken

#12. Sometimes life isn't what you thought it would be it's just what it is.

Heather Hepler

#13. In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

Rowan Atkinson

#14. Yellow?" The king's eyebrows nudge up. "What, you thought I'd like the color of spilled blood or something?" He tips his head back as he weighs my words. "Yeah, I kind of did.

Laura Thalassa

#15. Teddy laughed, heard the sound of it carry off on the sweep of night air and dissolve in the distant surf, as if it had never been, as if the island and the sea and the salt took what you thought you had and ...

Dennis Lehane

#16. Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#17. By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.

Taylor Negron

#18. I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.

Parvesh Cheena

#19. You realize something once, when you are nine, and then you realize it again when you are ten, and you realize when you are eleven, twelve, but every year you see that what you thought you understood a year ago, no, wait it is ten times worse. And your heart fills up with lead.

Rebecca Makkai

#20. I'd heard that if you saw a Reaper, you saw what you expected to see, what you thought the agents of Death would look like. Personally, I wanted to see little, fuzzy pink bunnies, but apparently my subconscious visualized tall, scary, and skeletal. My subconscious and I needed to have a long talk.

Lisa Shearin

#21. For a long time, I tried to make my ilfe work, to make our family work. I got tired, though. Five children wears you out until the only thing left inside you, the only thing you've got to give, is a memory of what you thought you'd be.

Amy Franklin-Willis

#22. You would be surprised what you can do when you have no choice. That's what courage is, Xavion. It's the result of facing what you thought would consume you.

Lori Goodwin

#23. What if you went to Hell, and it was exactly what you thought it would be: just a cave with fire? And the devil really was this idiot in a red leotard with a pitchfork?

Dana Gould

#24. I'm liminal. What are you saying? What, you thought you were normal?

Ayize Jama-Everett

#25. You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write and speak what you thought had to be written and spoken, you had to act against all these suppressive rules.

Stefan Heym

#26. Look, I don't mean to be rude, but you could never have a normal life, even if that's what you thought you wanted. You and me, we're not 'normal.

Christina Baker Kline

#27. Trauma silences a person. It shatters your identity, and along with it, much of what you thought you knew.

Sandra Lee Dennis

#28. That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

Carl Jung

#29. Why was it so hard to tell the difference between what you thought you wanted and what you wanted? Why did people have to be such a danger to themselves?

Leah Stewart

#30. For love was a kind of folly, a losing game. The greatest of all Wastes of Time. But then, that depended on what you thought time was for.

Cassandra Golds

#31. Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.

Vironika Tugaleva

#32. You're taught that you can keep going in the military. Your point of collapse is not what you thought it was. Your body is built to survive, and when you think you're going to collapse, you still have so much more left in you.

Kiesza

#33. 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 of what you thought before.

Cass Sunstein

#34. In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#35. The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don't always get what you thought you were asking for.

Vernor Vinge

#36. You move your life across the country and make a commitment to a place, and to a genre, and then you realize that neither the place nor the genre might be what you thought they were going to be, or that the world you thought you were going to find in school doesn't actually exist.

John D'Agata

#37. Suppose someone tried to write your biography. What nonsense! How much would he know? Would he know what you thought when you looked in the subway slot-machine? How brutally you spoke when you were angry? How Nature rode you with a busy spur? How you fell on your knees late at night?

Christopher Morley

#38. You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.

Byron Katie

#39. This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

Rumi

#40. And sometimes," he said, "you get to what you thought was the end and you find it's a whole new beginning.

Anne Tyler

#41. As you get older, there will be a new challenge arising. What you thought you'd accomplished once, maybe the goal post has shifted and it's not what you're pursuing anymore, because you're not interested in that anymore, you know?

Annie Lennox

#42. When you start to live your dream, it's not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it, and you have to figure it all out.

Orlando Bloom

#43. 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 looking for.

Lawrence Block

#44. Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that's bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside ... thus creating pain ... but, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy (embrace) what you feel

Jeremy Aldana

#45. Image is like a long shadow. Even when the sun goes down, you can see it. I think some of it is that there is so much pressure to be that person that you become it, maybe, to a certain point you can bear. It's impossible not to end up being a parody of what you thought you were.

Keith Richards

#46. I didn't say it didn't feel good..." They never tell you this part in sex ed, how to talk about what you did and why you did it and what you thought about it, before, during, and after.

Sara Zarr

#47. More than likely you'll do well enough alone by the engines of your own fate until you either hit a few really nasty bumps in the road or grow old enough to realize that there may be a diamond or two in what you thought was your old man's bucket.

Carew Papritz

#48. Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't.

Byron Katie

#49. You can make yourself crazy, refiguring it all after the fact. You did what you thought was best at the time. You helped a friend. That's what matters.

Craig Lancaster

#50. The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.

Derek Tangye

#51. I know what you thought, what you always thought of me.
It's so much easier that way, isn't it?

Leigh Bardugo

#52. You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.

Rod Serling

#53. Challenge yourself or what you are right now is the best you will ever be and never what you thought you would be.

Auliq Ice

#54. Love what you do. Even if it's not what you thought you'd be doing when you were a kid, love what you do. Eventually, it's going to kill you, and it would be a real pity if you died doing something you hate. - Evelyn Baker

Seanan McGuire

#55. I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.

Dolly Parton

#56. I'm somewhere in the middle. I want both. Or I want it all. Or I only want part of both. I don't know. I just know that you don't always end up happy with what you thought would make you happy. You've probably been there a time or two yourself. You can't always get what you want.

Sarah Colonna

#57. Writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.

Susan Sontag

#58. She hadn't learned, no one had taught her ... that the things you want, you never get them. And if you do, they're not what you thought they'd be. But you'd still do anything to keep them. Because you'd wanted them for so long.

Megan Abbott

#59. I think life is politics anyway. You can't ignore it, but you can go very wrong in politics. You can say what you thought 50 years ago, but maybe you're wrong today. It's something very special, politics. I think you'd better be a good person in life every day - it's much more important.

Anna Karina

#60. Things, however, rarely happened the way you understood them. Mostly they just sort of drove up alongside what you thought was the case and then moved randomly down some other way.

Lorrie Moore

#61. Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn't real anymore, and that changes your perspective. It makes you more wary but also means you are better equipped to deal with challenges.

Hannah Ware

#62. All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

Mitch Albom

#63. She supposed that it it perhaps not fair to quarrel with someone on the basis of what you thought they were thinking

Diana Gabaldon

#64. When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

Sydney Pollack

#65. I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

Richard M. Nixon

#66. You can never miss your fate," Eleni would always say. "Even if it feels like it, it only means that your fate isn't what you thought.

Andrea Thalasinos

#67. You're an honest girl and you have no money. Poor thing. Guess there's nothing we can do about it IS THAT WHAT YOU THOUGHT I'D SAY? PEole are not that nice in the real world. Stupid! Kurosaki

Kyousuke Motomi

#68. They say, he must had an angel, cuss look how death missed his ass. Unbreakable, what you thought they'd call me Mr. Glass?

Kanye West

#69. Which was worse? Mourning the loss of something without knowing you never actually had it, or mourning the loss of what you thought you had and never had at all?

Susan Meissner

#70. Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.

Alice Munro

#71. Being given a terrible piece of information shouldn't ruin the interactions you have with the people around you or mean that you can't become something, even if it's not the idea of what you thought you were going to be.

Rose McIver

#72. A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

Ryan Phillippe

#73. In the end when you get your master back, you realize it's got absolutely nothing to do with what you thought it was going to be when you started.

King Khan

#74. And what you thought you came for
is only a shell, a husk of meaning
from which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled
if at all. Either you had no purpose
or the purpose is beyond the end you figured
And is altered in fulfillment.

T. S. Eliot

#75. They laughed together then until the woman's features turned somber. "Thank you for not lying about what you thought of my appearance. You might have a face to turn my hair white, but your honesty is handsome.

Grace Draven

#76. If there is but one pearl of wisdom I have to impart to you, after all my observations here thus far, it is do not take yourself too seriously. Because when you get here, you might just find that you are not exactly who or what you thought you were.

Natasha Rendell

#77. So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming in, what ignorant thing you believed, you're in show business for two years, you're like, "OK, I was wrong." It's hard to be mad at any particular group of people when you're an artist.

Chris Rock

#78. I'm going to check the world's best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn't even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.

Nalo Hopkinson

#79. We need more people like Bill Phillips in the world. People who live each day with a passion to help other people. The kind of person who will motivate you beyond what you thought was possible and the kind of person who will celebrate your success with you.

Robert Cheeke

#80. Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy.

Lesley Howarth

#81. You never know when God's going to replace what you thought was gone forever. What a gift - a precious gift from God.

Regina Jennings

#82. Consider the weak point in your private life and make a resolution for it, you will be stronger than what you thought and you'll start to achieve your goals easily.

Auliq Ice

#83. Hanging over what you did and what you thought, until jealousy and suspicion sucked the life out of anything you had left.

Sibel Hodge

#84. She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, colored by what you thought of them.

Jojo Moyes

#85. The
trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start
digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something
will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something.

Debbi Fields

#86. At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.

Heather Hepler

#87. Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could,

Sarah Lewis

#88. Freedom is a delicate flower, like a pretty leaf in the air: It's hard to catch and may not be what you thought when you get it, she observed quietly.- Polly from Copper Sun

Sharon M. Draper

#89. Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Garrison Keillor

#90. Sometimtes you don't even know what you really want until you get what you thought you wanted.

Debbie Viguie

#91. Death is a divorce nobody asked for; to live through it is to find a way to disengage from what you thought you couldn't stand to lose.

Gail Caldwell

#92. Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#93. Hey, do you remember that time when I asked what you thought? Yeah, me neither

Suzanne Wright

#94. You created this moment from what you thought and felt three days ago. What you are thinking and feeling right now will create your next moments. You cool with that?

Joe Vitale

#95. That, Claire thought, was a pretty good definition of love: needing someone even after you got what you thought you wanted.

Rachel Caine

#96. It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

Shirley Henderson

#97. The '18-40-60 Rule': at 18 you care what everyone thinks, at 40 you don't care what anyone thinks and at 60 you realize no one ever cared about what you thought, they were busy worrying about themselves.

Daniel Amen

#98. It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

Ben Okri

#99. I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant

Alan Greenspan

#100. What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing on your neck the other day was just a fluke. I guess not--looks like you get off on picking up a few souvenirs when you...get off. ~Crash

Jordan Castillo Price