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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke. — Billie Joe Armstrong

History was like looking into others' lives, learning how they lived, what they did, how they thought, and even how they loved. — Max Vos

Love and memory and thought and dream ~
My favorite poems have never been written in words. — Kij Johnson

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. — Douglas Feith

A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again. — Wayne W. Dyer

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. — Socrates

When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god. — Maureen O'Hara

Language disguises thought. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I thought you guys were doing some kind of secret role-playing shit. — M.D. Saperstein

To create a new belief is easy but to understand and improve someone's concept and to develop it for good is difficult. — Vikram Roy

Don't embrace mediocrity; its main charm is to make you fall in love with failure. Speed off ... Excellence awaits you at the end of your journey! — Israelmore Ayivor

There is no thought, no word, no act, and no area of human life that is not affected by sin. — Joel R. Beeke

After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play. When I am in the Socratic — Winston S. Churchill

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented ... — Amy Lowell

Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You — Brooke Bida

If they'd given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler. — Rainbow Rowell

Being must be felt. It can't be thought. — Eckhart Tolle

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track. — Bill Watterson

It wasn't so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin? — Kelly Braffet

After a while, Eve thought, marriage turned walls into clear glass so both of you could see right through each other. — J.D. Robb

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought. — Ayn Rand

I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would. — Charlotte Eriksson

If he'd looked like a cross between Mr. Clooney and, say, one of the hobbits, I probably would have been far more capable of coherent thought. — Ally Carter

The thought of dying has never bothered me, but getting hurt, losing blood, becoming crippled and the like - no thanks. — Osamu Dazai

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out. — Francis Bacon

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people. — Robert Hilburn

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. — George Santayana

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so. — Nick Cave

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary. — Kathe Kollwitz

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. — Sylvia Plath

She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus. — Frank Herbert

Don't be a patron of disbelief; nobody fights and wins battles in the hand gloves of doubts. — Israelmore Ayivor

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human. — Donald Miller

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God. — Srinivasa Ramanujan

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.] — Virginia Woolf

The thought of going to sleep forever was delicious. I was so very tired. — Cat Clarke

She wanted to be a little girl again, the one who thought getting high meant being pushed on the swings and pain was falling off her bike — Amy Zhang

Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life. — Joan Bennett Kennedy

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. — Mark Hopkins

I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor. — Reese Witherspoon

And I did everything I could to get over the nagging emptiness that took over every time I thought of Felicity Williams. — Sibylla Matilde

I think I've lost 3lbs - I'm very, very happy. I thought of it as work and a spa. — Joan Rivers

I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba. — Yoenis Cespedes

I have often thought of the postman's bringing me a letter as one of the pleasures I shall miss in heaven. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. — Michael Gruber

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. — Asger Jorn

You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person. — Israelmore Ayivor

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer. — Ann Leckie

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. — Sylvia Plath

She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died. — D.H. Lawrence

I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am. — Neve Campbell

I've thought of all the questions," said Father.
"That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones. — Orson Scott Card

But a man like that deserved to never be thought of again. Why couldn't he have just stayed buried? No good had come of this. — Sarah Addison Allen

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West. — Ken Curtis

When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'. — Billy Connolly

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny. — Samuel Smiles

My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over. — Dionne Warwick

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men. — Hans Christian Andersen

Universe is nothing, but human thought. — Farid Huseynli

Thought was a valuable thing, that got results. — William Golding

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex. — Chuck Klosterman

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. — James Allen

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. — Douglas William Jerrold

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God
then having it taken away, forever. — Glen Duncan

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous. — Emmanuelle Beart

I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part. — Sam Walton

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. — Doris Lessing

When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more you believe in the power of thought, and the more you listen to your breath, the greater changes you can create in your life. — Stig Avall Severinsen

Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. - — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are a living magnet with magnetic power emitting from your every thought. — Debasish Mridha

The waters of her emotions ran deep, and he was only privy to the splashes on the surface. — Travis Luedke

I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13 or 14 year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she'll do what I did. — Courtney Thorne-Smith

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels. — Andrew Motion

Be consistent with what you believe and do. Persist and insist that you will do it till it's done and done well. — Israelmore Ayivor

He thought that they were walking there like Mickey and Minnie Mouse and that they probably appeared ridiculous to the passers-by. — Ayn Rand

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark. — Mary Stewart

Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work, — J.R.D. Tata

Leaders make impacts. If your riches don't help you to make impacts, you aren't leading anyone; rather, money is leading you. — Israelmore Ayivor

Take a second look at what you are about to do ... A second look prevents a second chance. — Israelmore Ayivor

I thought you didn't make love. I thought you fucked hard. — E.L. James

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not. — Henry Blodget

I thought he was the saddest person I had ever met, in those moments when I glimpsed him staring out the window. — Jojo Moyes

The greatest excuse you must have is the excuse to do your best to the very best and in a distinctive manner — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide — Albert Camus

Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing. — Rhonda Byrne

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief. — Wilma Mankiller

Yes, I was mad at God because of the cancer diagnosis. I thought I should have been protected because of the work I do in the world. — Debbie Ford

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so. — Richard Hell

Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old. — Dixie Carter

Perhaps Break is a lot weaker than I always thought he was. However, I'm sure that he's a whole lot stronger than he thinks he is. — Jun Mochizuki

Lord, I contact You in Your way. I don't contact You by my thought, concept, or knowledge. Lord, You are my way. — Witness Lee

My first job paid well for a young attorney. I was making over $50,000, which was more than either of my parents had ever made. I thought I was rich. — Marco Rubio

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action. — William Blum

Hermione was back, holding out a gossamer dress of rainbow chiffon so airy I thought of fireflies on a moonlight night. — Ruth Reichl

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. — Anita Brookner

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it. — Bianca Jagger

The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask God "why?". — Israelmore Ayivor

Garp didn't want a daughter because of men. Because of bad men, certainly; but even, he thought, because of men like me. — John Irving