Quotes with thought-tyrants

Quotes 721 till 740 of 849.

  • John Steinbeck We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to feel - ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Amy Hempel We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.
    Rick Moody (2007) 60
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Bill Bryson We couldn't place their accents but we thought the smaller one might be Australian since he seemed so at home down under.
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Barnett Newman We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Carlton Cuse We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Carl Karcher We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.
    Carl Karcher
    American businessman (1917 - 2008)
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  • Joan Didion We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Burnie Burns We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we'd seen how the audio industry got disrupted, so it just seemed like a natural progression that video was next. We thought we were late to the game in 2003.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • James Baldwin We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Brendan Myers We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn, support dictators and tyrants in other countries, all in the name of 'security' and 'stability'. And we arm ourselves to the teeth, and pray to God to be saved.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Norman Cousins We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Orison Swett Marden We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.
    Orison Swett Marden
    American inspirational author (1848 - 1924)
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  • David Mamet We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ''censorship,'' we call it ''concern for commercial viability.''
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Ben Foster We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Bobby Farrelly We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Toni Morrison We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
    The Bluest Eye (2014) 138
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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