#thought

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year. ↗

— Walt Disney

#did #disaster #disneyland #financial #first

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ↗

— James Douglas

#dark #dawn #garden #good #good idea

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#compete #funny #group #leadership #people

There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti. ↗

— Jean Claude Duvalier

#been #day #haiti #i #left

I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#am #any #attacked #based #believe

We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care and thought and hopefully that shines through twenty years later. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#always #approached #asia #been #care

Isaiah 41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. ↗

— Anonymous

#biblical #god #prophecy #prophetic #quiet

Words are but pictures of our thoughts. ↗

— John Dryden

#pictures #thoughts #words

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#along #been #course #decision #had

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found. ↗

— Walpola Rahula

#cogito-ergo-sum #existence #existentialism #god #humanity