English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Thoughtfully Quotes (page 141)

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities. Norman Vincent Peale
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society. George Washington
Puck Mulligan footed featly, trilling: I HARDLY HEAR THE PURLIEU CRY OR A TOMMY TALK AS I PASS ONE BY BEFORE MY THOUGHTS BEGIN TO RUN ON F. M'CURDY ATKINSON, THE SAME THAT HAD THE WOODEN LEG AND THAT FILIBUSTERING FILIBEG THAT NEVER DARED TO SLAKE HIS DROUTH, MAGEE THAT HAD THE CHINLESS MOUTH. BEING AFRAID TO MARRY ON EARTH THEY MASTURBATED FOR ALL THEY WERE WORTH.Jest on. Know thyself. James Joyce
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this faade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no... Walt Whitman
Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in the whole world. This fancy had strange consequences. Herodotus
The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off. Harry S. Truman
In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out. Haruki Murakami
C. S. Lewis quote: "If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be..."
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes...it cuts its own throat. C. S. Lewis
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head. Mark Twain
Albert Einstein quote: "I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details."
I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details. Albert Einstein
Sylvia Plath quote: "The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply..."
The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. Sylvia Plath
He had always thought there was an answer to all life's mysteries in the stars, yet whenever he stared at them the answer slipped out of his grasp... But he had to think now, and he stared at the smoke-dimmed stars in the hope that they would help him, but all they did was go on shining. Bernard Cornwell
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what..."
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me."People have been wrongly condemned before now."Exactly; simply because I wasn't there."I never thought of that. Dorothy L. Sayers
Ayn Rand quote: "Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can..."
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others. Ayn Rand

Popular Topics

Popular Author