Quotes for Thought

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.

Chinese Proverb

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.

Richard Bach

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

Hayley Atwell

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

David Bowie

The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.

Michel Foucault

Women's rights was thought of as a Western concept. Now people do talk about women's rights - political parties talk about it, even religious parties talk about it.

Asma Jahangir

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

Edward Norton

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

William Shakespeare

Think how hard physics would be if particles could think.

Murray Gell-Mann

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

Xenophanes

In general, the straight line of a joke sets up a premise, an expectation. Then the funny ending - the punch line - in a sense contradicts the original assumption by refusing to follow what had seemed a reasonable train of thought. Many jokes involve that simple matter of leaping outside what had appeared to be the rules of the game at the moment.

Steve Allen

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Sigmund Freud

Because of engineering, I have been able to experience things I never thought I would be able to do as an undergraduate.

Emily Calandrelli

It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.

Richard Harroch

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

James Baldwin

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.

Anita Brookner

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

George Gershwin

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

Nicole Kidman