Afterthought Quotes

• For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

  Amelia Barr

  Sorrow, Forethought, Stills

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.53, Litres

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• Forethought spares afterthought.

  Amelia Barr

  Planning, Forethought, Foresight

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.53, Litres

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• I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

  Bernard Malamud

  Flower, Language

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.67, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Here's why most campaigns get data wrong. They treat it as an afterthought and they treat it as sort of a logistic.

  Ted Cruz

  Data, Campaigns, Treats

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell. Now, my fingers hovered over my track pad, moving the cursor down to his comment section before I stopped myself. What was the point? Anything I said now would only be an afterthought. Elizabeth who goes by her middle name

  Sarah Dessen

  Goodbye, Moving, Farewell

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.24, Penguin UK

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• I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name

  André Aciman

  Goodbye, Doors, Names

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• You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.

  Desmond Tutu

  Accidents

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.

  Desmond Tutu

  Accidents

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

  Sophocles

  Liars, Firsts, Resolve

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.35, University of Chicago Press

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• Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

  Alan Cohen

  Joy, Purpose, May

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• I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Atheism, Cosmic, Fortuitous

  "Dinosaur in a Haystack". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution?" (p. 327), 1995.

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• People shouldn't notice what you're wearing before they
  notice you. You want people to register you first. 'Oh, what a nice jacket' should be an afterthought if you're doing it right.

  Michael Kors

  Nice, People, Want

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• We will not have peace by afterthought.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Literature

  "Saturday Review" magazine, Editorial, 1956.

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• I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Stranger, Dear

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• I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Commitment, Roles, May

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• Every thought is an afterthought.

  Hannah Arendt

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

  Stephen Levine

  Inspiration, Live Life, Practice

  Stephen Levine (2010). “Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings”, p.9, Anchor

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• I used to put the vocals on top and piece it together. Now I start with the vocals and the string parts I write; the drums are kind of an afterthought. And who knows, maybe that will get boring, but right now that's the most interesting way for me.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Writing, Interesting, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The podcast was kind of an afterthought, because I was just excited about being on the radio. Then I found that the podcast listenership is some 20 times what people are listening to on the radio.

  Scott Aukerman

  People, Listening, Radio

  "Scott Aukerman of Comedy Death-Ray". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2010.

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• And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.

  Neil Young

  Taken, People, Bullshit

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• An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.

  John Stott

  Christian, Lying, Community

  John Stott (2012). “The Living Church”, p.15, SPCK

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• Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are not so unique as we should like to believe.

  Robert Ardrey

  Believe, Animal, Unique

  "African Genesis".

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• Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Progress, Littles, Tiny

  "Dinosaur in a Haystack". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution?" (p. 327), 1995.

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• Since we're keeping it primal, you smell good," he observed. "It's called a shower...," I began automatically, then trailed off. My memory snagged, taken aback by a compelling and forceful sense of undue familiarity. "Soap, shampoo, hot water," I added, almost as an afterthought. "Naked. I know the drill," Jev said, something unreadeble passing over his eyes.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Memories, Taken, Eye

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet.

  Steve Rasnic Tem

  Sports, Dream, Home

  Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

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