Thoughts Quotes

• When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Thoughts
  • Backward
  • Delighting

• We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • God
  • Feelings
  • Use

• I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

  

  Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Sad

• If we lose a job, we are easily tempted into thoughts like, "Ain't it awful? There aren't any jobs out there. This is terrible. It'll be awhile before the economy comes back. Even if they're hiring someone, they're not hiring someone my age with my resume." And that's really what causes the crash and burn. The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Job
  • Age
  • Awful

• I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and-if you're not careful-those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.

  

  Brandon Sanderson
  • Good
  • Book
  • Tired

• The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Real
  • Together

• I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

  

  John Keats
  • Poetry
  • Thoughts

• Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Heart
  • Thoughts

• I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Thoughts

• 'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • People
  • Work
  • Thoughts

• We all have a private world in which we live; that's the place where nobody comes; alone with our secret thoughts. Our own spouses oftentimes don't know what we're thinking. In our private worlds, it's only you and the Lord, who searches our hearts and knows our anxious thoughts.

  

  O. S. Hawkins
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Live

• I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.

  

  Kim Harrison
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Emotional

• Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thoughts
  • Afraid
  • Spoke

• I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • People
  • Up
  • Hand

• Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart" "It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability that counts." "Let God's promises shine on your problems." "Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Heart
  • Fear

• The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Powerful
  • Positive
  • Stronger

• Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • People
  • Thoughts

• One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, "Make yourself at home."

  

  Vance Havner
  • Good
  • Home
  • Help

• The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

  

  A. G. Mohan
  • Mind
  • Water
  • River

• my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.

  

  William Styron
  • World
  • Brain
  • Response

• To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Thoughts

• So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

  

  George Berkeley
  • Long
  • Words
  • Thoughts

• We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is - which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights who will grow up to be an adult.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Up
  • Thoughts
  • Sex

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