Our first thoughts are the thoughts that are given to us; our second thoughts are the thoughts that we make for ourselves. I prefer to trust to the former.英文原著 · 《Diary of a Pilgrimage》
"The lover hears, -- across the sea, A favouring word was breathed to me. The lovely one with light-brown hair May trust her thoughts to senseless air; Her thoughts will find like thoughts in me; And though my love I cannot see, Affection's thoughts fly in the wind, And meet each other, true and kind."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
It must be so. All thoughts that peer outside this narrow world cannot be else than dim and shapeless. The thoughts that we can clearly grasp are very little thoughts--that two and two make four-that when we are hungry it is pleasant to eat--that honesty is the best policy; all greater thoughts are undefined and vast to our poor childish brains. We see but dimly through the mists that roll around our time-girt isle of life, and only hear the distant surging of the great sea beyond.英文原著 · 《Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow》
He has become a false mirror of this Universe; not a small mirror only, but a crooked, bedimmed and utterly deranged one. But all loose tongues too are akin to lying ones; are insincere at the best, and go rattling with little meaning; the thought lying languid at a great distance behind them, if thought there be behind them at all. Gradually there will be none or little! How can the thought of such a man, what he calls thought, be other than false?英文原著 · 《Latter-Day Pamphlets》
The mark of the lash was still on his face. After all, Subienkow could not blame him, but he disliked the thought of what Yakaga would do to him. He thought of appealing to Makamuk, the head-chief; but his judgment told him that such appeal was useless. Then, too, he thought of bursting his bonds and dying fighting. Such an end would be quick. But he could not break his bonds. Caribou thongs were stronger than he. Still devising, another thought came to him.英文原著 · 《Lost Face》
What on earth had Ella meant by appearing in that wonderful costume that night? It was not a toilet for the opera, even on a Melba night; even on a "Romeo and Juliet" night, unless, indeed, the wearer meant to appear on the stage as /Juliet/, was the thought which occurred to the girl. Her fantastic thought--she thought it was a fantastic thought--made her smile. Unless----英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
My first thought was to tell you right away, but then my second thought was to ignore my first thought, because we have the votes, Bob.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
I thought the gig was a little sloppy in spots, but I think once I learn all the songs- I thought- I thought this was a one-time thing?美剧 · 《Modern Family》
What? I thought--I thought-- I thought we were on the same page.美剧 · 《Shameless》
I just thought-You were'so great with my kids at school, I thought- I thought you'd have fun.美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》