Thought Quotes

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.

~ Ellen Key

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

~ Jeff Goodell

The thing is, when I feel like I have to lose weight, the opposite happens. I remember stuffing loads of chocolate on the plane to the shoot, and I thought, 'Why don't you have the courage to show up in a body that's natural, not overly worked out?'

~ Geri Halliwell

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

~ Horace Smith

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

~ John Ruskin

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

~ William James

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

~ Isaac Asimov

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

~ Humphry Davy

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

~ Homer

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

~ Honoré De Balzac

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

~ Rajiv Gandhi

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

~ John Muir

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be... it's really, you know, still fascinating for me.

~ Beyoncé Knowles

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

~ Drew Carey

It doesn't require much thought for one to realise that any travel book worthy of the name has to be a departure from the standard idea of the form.

~ Geoff Dyer

I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you - you wait at an airport, your flight's delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.

~ Brian Setzer

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

~ Frances E. Willard

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

~ Phyllis Diller

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

~ Emmet Fox

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

~ Len Wein

Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.

~ Gary Johnson

On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

~ Iman

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

~ Samantha Bee

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'

~ Christina Hendricks

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

~ Liv Tyler

When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.

~ Gloria Stuart

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

~ Gloria Stuart

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

~ Audrey Hepburn

When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'

~ Orlando Bloom

When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

~ James Franco

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

~ Elvis Presley

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

~ Jean Cocteau

I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.

~ Paul Walker

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

~ Nicolas Cage

Hollywood is a boys' club, and that's something I thought was a stereotype - and it's not. That really shocked me. Still shocks me. Everyone's helping their buddies out and pressing their buddies and playing tennis with their buddies and making movies with their buddies, and that grosses me out.

~ Emily Ratajkowski

The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.

~ Damien Chazelle

I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn't been interested in and cultural things I hadn't been aware of and economic factors I hadn't thought about.

~ Hideo Kojima

While I always thought of making sequels to movies like 'Ghayal,' the filmmakers would almost always veto the idea.

~ Sunny Deol