Thought Quotes - page 5

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people. (Rutherford B. Hayes)
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. View quote
Muhammad Ali
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. View quote
Yogi Berra
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. View quote
George MacDonald
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. View quote
Alexander Fleming
I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. View quote
John Steinbeck
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt? View quote
Boris Pasternak
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. (Michel de Montaigne)
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. View quote
Henri Bergson
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. View quote
H. G. Wells
I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain. View quote
Frances Bean Cobain
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. View quote
Karl Kraus
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? View quote
Richard Dawkins
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. View quote
Louis Pasteur
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. (Wendell Phillips)
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. View quote
Victor Hugo
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. View quote
Arthur Machen
You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs. View quote
J. P. Morgan
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues