Thoughts Quotes

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

High thoughts must have high language.

And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

One of my favorite tools is 'flip it.' 'Flip it' can become your new favorite mantra when you are having one of those mean thoughts. You can choose to flip it and change how you are feeling about yourself in that moment. This is helpful at any age.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?