Quotes with thought-tyrants

Quotes 581 till 600 of 849.

  • C. S. Lewis The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 186-187
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Britt Ekland The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Aaron Machado The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
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  • Raymond Holliwell The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Edward Murphy The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.
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  • Salman Rushdie The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
    (2005)
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Daniel Webster The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Socrates The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Brooke Shields The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Albert Camus The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Cab Calloway The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • B. W. Powe The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
    Towards A Canada of Light A Prayer For Canada, p. 13
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Jack Handey The other day I got out my can-opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, What am I doing?!
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  • Billy Collins The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Lord George Byron The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Brit Hume The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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