Thought Quotes

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

~ John Betjeman

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

~ C. S. Lewis

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

~ Carter G. Woodson

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

~ Paul Valéry

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

~ Umberto Eco

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

~ Eddie Bernice Johnson

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

~ Jacques Chirac

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

~ Conan O'brien

I love kimonos because you can just throw them on over anything. Ever since I got my first kimono from Lane Bryant in high school and thought, 'This is amazing; I can wear it with everything!'

~ Lizzo

I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.

~ Ralph Lauren

I remembered a long time ago when 'A League of Their Own' came out, and they had the opening sequence with an older Geena Davis. We all just thought it was amazing, but you find out it actually wasn't Geena Davis; it wasn't makeup. It was basically finding an actress that looked like her, and then Geena just dubbed her voice.

~ James Wan

My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record and you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!

~ Jill Scott

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

~ Ashley Tisdale

Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing things we own. Until something goes wrong, we barely give them thought. This seems strange to me. How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies?

~ Mary Roach

'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.

~ Reid Scott

I was really attracted to doing 'Game of Thrones' because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.

~ Ellie Kendrick

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

~ Ayn Rand

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

~ John Adams

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

~ Blaise Pascal

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.

~ Joshua Chamberlain

I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.

~ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

~ Louis Tomlinson

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

~ Cynthia Ozick

So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else.

~ Henry Kravis

I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.

~ Maya Rudolph

I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm at now.

~ Stipe Miocic

The fact 'Twin Peaks' had a life at all took most of us in the cast by surprise. We thought it would be too unusual for network television. The original intention was that it would be a two-hour movie. If the network didn't want to pick it up as a series, it could just show that. But ABC took a chance.

~ Kyle Maclachlan

No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'

~ Sophia Loren

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

~ Aristotle

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

~ Marie Corelli

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

When I started acting, I thought if I got one or two jobs a year I'd be lucky. So yeah, my career has gone so much farther than I ever suspected it would, and as such I feel lucky for everything I get. I feel thankful and grateful.

~ James Mcavoy

This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better start eating. I'm just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars.

~ Susan Dey

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

~ Elizabeth I

When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.

~ Victoria Osteen

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

~ Howard Dean

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

~ Pat Robertson

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

~ Xenophanes

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

~ Abigail Adams