Quotes of: Thought-process Keyword

A man is only as effective as the effect he has on his surroundings,' Gordon was saying. 'And if a man is not effective, if his very is as insubstantial as thought, then what is this man? Is he a man? Or is he merely the thought of a man?

The Faceless Ones

...I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the sun and moon rise or set, or burn through the fog.

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.

The Grapes of Wrath

When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America

It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather you thought in a certain way because you were made in a certain way. Truth had nothing to do with it.

Of Human Bondage

Many people engage in physical relationships without ever experiencing intimacy

How Do I Love Thee: Food for Thought Before You Say "I DO"

... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey

The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.

Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!

Pat Barker

I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would like to continue writing novels, and hopefully, at some point, I would like to make the switch from being 'Stephen Hawking's daughter' to 'novelist Lucy...

Lucy Hawking

Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.

Sophie Kinsella

You can either feed negative thoughts or you can starve the suckers.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide.

Imperial Bedrooms

To know another person is to Know How to live and work with her. To know another person in a moral sense is to Know How to respect her... Respect must show in action.

Impure Thoughts: Essays on Philosophy, Feminism, and Ethics

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose...

The Instructions

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by the light.

Revelation Space