Quotes About Thoughts

I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.

Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have.

Anthropomorphism is such an interesting concept. It means projecting human thoughts and emotions onto an animal. Which implies that thoughts and feelings belong to humans alone. Of course, if you believe in evolution, or if you believe in the Bible, that's not so. Both evolution and the Bible tell us that we're part of a family.

I love watching England and what they are doing. But I can promise you I've not thought about anything that high.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Again, again your mind has changed course with the wind. For you think now of godly things ignored when you worked dreadful deeds on your brother against his will.

It is the thoughts of men that are deceitful, Their pledges that are loose.

Hector. To think thus pleasures thee? Well, have it thus.

MEN. For thou thinkest inconsistently, now one thing, before another, another thing presently. AG. Well hast thou talked evil. Hateful is a too clever tongue. [20]

MEN. For thou thinkest inconsistently, now one thing, before another, another thing presently. AG. Well hast thou talked evil. Hateful is a too clever tongue. [20] MEN. But an unstable mind is an unjust thing to possess, and

his thoughts, I knew, were far away, in those distant ages where he moved at ease, where time passed in centuries and all the figures were defaced and the names of his companions were corrupt readings of words of quite other meaning.

I feared so-you're sentimental. You're not like me. I'm a romantic little materialist. I'm not sentimental-I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last-the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed—the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

His mind, under the influence of that insidious mildew which eventually forms on all but the few, gave itself up furiously to every indignation of the age.

I did not think - I was a battleground for the thoughts of many men.

Then Rosalind began popping into his mind again, and he found his lips forming her name over and over.

No amount of fre or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

He read at wine, he read in bed, He read aloud, had he the breath, His every thought was with the dead, And so he read himself to death.

Thoughts are Things; things that have a tendency to transform into our reality.