#thoughts

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#back #been #blew #could #distinct

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#cannot #enables #get #ideas #our

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. ↗

— David Brainerd

#divine #employed #fill #hands #heart

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#constitution #deficit #democratic #does #economic

To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody! ↗

— Frances Burney

#dare #dearest #dedicate #dislikes #fears

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts. ↗

— Mary Ellen Chase

#father #given #good #labor #manual

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#feed #flame #frame #his #love

The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#computer #diaries #did #end #ended

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#animal #belong #consciousness #difficult #feelings

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#appreciation #form #good #highest #highest form