Thought Quotes

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

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.

One thought fills immensity.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

I always thought I was so fit.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.

I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.