#thought

Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#frustration #jacob-black #pique #stereotypes #thought

Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#thought

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#comfort

One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#perfection #effort

Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a rebel. ...And if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the REBEL, we now have a DEVIL. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have ... GREATNESS. ↗

— Nicholas Tharcher

#independent-thought #metaphysics #philosophy #independence

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to. ↗

— Banksy

#initiative #oxymoron #paradox #independence

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#individualism #preference #independence

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#rejected #should #simply #thought #too

Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease. ↗

— Robert Barany

#brain #caused #could #disease #kind

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#new-thought