Thought quotes

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Maybe you thought you were helping, but you weren’t. You hurt me, do you understand? What you did sucks.

- Mike Wheeler

I always thought stuff like this happened in movies and comic books.

- Bob Newby

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

- Nana Mouskouri

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

- George Byron

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

- Leonardo da Vinci

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

- Ridley Scott

Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought.

- Charles Bronson

I thought 'God, what have I done?'... I realized I would be in serious trouble. I thought the best way out of the mess was to make sure she could not tell anybody.

- Peter Sutcliffe

When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

- Salma Hayek

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

- Robert Collier

I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.

- Dick Gephardt

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

- William Whewell

We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me.

- Robert Carlyle

A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.

- Andy Hertzfeld

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

- Epictetus

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

- Carly Simon

I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody.

- Bob Saget

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.

- Rio Ferdinand

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

- Samuel Beckett

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

- Mason Cooley

The more I thought of the McClure offer the less I thought of it. So I told him last night I was satisfied where I was, and that the $75 he offered me was no inducement.

- Richard H. Davis

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

- Henri Bergson

I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

- Jamal Lewis

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

- Graham Greene

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

- David Viscott

I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!

- Daisy Fuentes

The strongest thing I put into my body is steak and eggs. I just eat. I'm not a supplement guy. Steroids are not even a thought.

- Jim Thome

One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!

- June Jordan

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

- Gustave Flaubert