A Quotes
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“A thought once awakened does not again slumber.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions
“A thought passed by. It didn't stop. I didn't chase it. Good balance.”
Source: Pointless
“A thought popped into my head, the same one that appears any time I’m in an elevator with another person: If we get stuck between floors, how long should I wait before I suggest we draw straws?
‘I know what you’re thinking,’ Cuthbert said.
I doubted that.”
Source: Headcase
“A thought raced through my mind: Would my descendants know what was spoken on this very piazzetta today? Would anyone? Or would it dissolve into thin air, as I found part of me wishing it would? Would they know how close to the brink their fate stood on this day on this piazzetta? The thought amused me and gave me the necessary distance to face the remainder of this day.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“a thought she'd once had about Lamb was that when they'd pulled the Wall down he'd built himself another, and had been living behind it ever since”
Source: Real Tigers
“A thought struck me: maybe I wouldn't ever be the real me again. Because the only thing that would snap things back to the way they were, would be if he had't died.”
Source: Anybody Out There?
“A thought that carries filth; indeed, incites and excites lecherous character and conduct; conversely, thought that holds decency; certainly, executes and displays dignity and moral values of life.”
“A thought that is almost beautiful – a thought that you speak not, but that you cherish within you at this moment, will irradiate you as though you were a transparent vase.”
Source: The Treasure of the Humble
“A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?”
“A thought that's imbued with the power of emotion produces the feeling that brings it to life. When this happens, we've created an affirmation as well as a prayer. Both are based in feeling-and more precisely, in feeling as if the outcome has already happened.”
Source: The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits
“A thought to ponder: If I couldn't use words to speak, what would my life be saying?”
“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth-that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which a man can aspire.
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of human is through love and in love.
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for the brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way-an honorable way-in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words,"The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.”
Source: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
“A thought weaves into another thought, seeking the other.
The thought world has its-own Inner Life.
A rose acts upon us through its symbolism, through its beauty, through our conscious & sub-conscious mind.
Meditating we tap into the thought form of ‘rose adoration’.”
Source: Conscious Creativity Mindfulness Meditations
“A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.”
Source: Last Essays
“A thought which is created in a second can change the thousand years of the World!”
“A thought will color a world for us.”
Source: Sister Carrie
“A thought with emotion colourizes the experinence. What we experience deep inside us is how we understand the nature of the universe.”
Source: Poetry book Alone in a Boat
“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”
Source: Complete works: The first complete and authorised English translation
“A thought, once uttered, is untrue”
“A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not.”
Source: The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ
“A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.”
“A thoughtful investment process contemplates both probability and payoffs and carefully considers where the consensus - as revealed by a price - may be wrong. Even though there are also some important features that make investing different than, say, a casino or the track, the basic idea is the same: you want the positive expected value on your side”
“A thoughtful person makes us think too! A dancing person makes us want to dance too! It seems like a human being is a being that cannot be motivated on its own and always needs motivation from something!”
“A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.”
“A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.”
Source: Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland
“A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.”
Source: An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts
“A thousand approaches lie open to death.”
“A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.”
“A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.”
“A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.”
“A thousand church visits won't make you holy, if you remain indifferent to the agonies of the people.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“A thousand curses on girls with smart mouths and access to firepower.”
Source: The Airship Also Rises
“A thousand curses on you and those who spawned you! You've plagued me long enough, you stygian fiend! I don't know what sulfurous pit you've crawled out of, but I mean to return you to it! I'll send you on a voyage down the river Styx if it's the last thing I do!" Twain directed his attention back to the phone. "No, I wasn't talking to you, but most of what I said still applies.”
Source: William Bradshaw and Fool's Gold
“A thousand dark nights spent riding with no home to arrive at.”
“A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.”
“A thousand desperate wishes have been spoken on these shores, and in the end they were all the same: Make me someone new.”
Source: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”
Source: Poems
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”
Source: Poems
“A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb”
Source: Inkheart
“A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses”
“A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.”
Source: Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering
“A thousand fireworks explode inside me, and I feel them in him too, in his lips on mine, and his hands in my hair, and he way we pull each other closer. Everything else falls away, and in this moment, when we touch, we are light.”
Source: Things We Know by Heart
“A thousand flatterers are not worth one person who is willing to wipe your ass.”
Source: The Daughters' War
“A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.”
Source: A Door Into Ocean
“A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!”
“A thousand glorious actions that might claim
Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame,
Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie,
And troops of heroes undistinguished die.”
Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works
“A thousand good deeds can be undone with one flash of anger. As a mature adult, you can master your affect and through it, provide the world with a steadiness and strength that is badly needed in this complicated age.”
“A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.”
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
“A thousand hills, but no birds in flight,
Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks.
A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man,
Fishing alone in the cold river snow.”