Sentence examples for persistent thought from inspiring English sources

"What started as a thought — a very persistent thought — has now become a course of action that I wish to pursue," Mr. Biden wrote in an open letter to his constituents in April 2014.

I got an office job for a few months after leaving university and it was the persistent thought of hopping on Greek ferries, and exploring the islands, that made me chuck it in and head to Greece, without a contract, to write the first Rough Guide.

I was ripe for it: my marathon was a month in the past, maintenance runs were turning into repetitive blurs of street lights and drizzle, a half-read copy of Feet in the Clouds was glaring at me from my bookshelf, and there was the persistent thought of: "What's next?".

As Frede argues, skeptics find themselves with a rather persistent thought, without having accepted it as true in actual fact.

There's nothing particularly bad about this production just the persistent thought that the endeavor was unnecessary.

However, standing on those stages, celebrating the graduation of a combined twenty blind and visually impaired teens, I couldn't shake a persistent thought: what Helen Keller worked so hard to do is not yet finished.

It seems obvious, but when you're moving your body, you're less focused on the persistent thoughts swirling in your mind.

Little attention is given to studying the perpetrators of such crimes, often believed to be pedophiles, or men who experience persistent thoughts, fantasies, urges and sexual arousal involving children.

Obsessions are recurring or persistent thoughts, images, or impulses that, rather than being voluntarily produced, seem to invade a person's consciousness despite his attempts to ignore, suppress, or control them.

For many parents and more than a few students, there are the persistent thoughts of "what if?" "There's no reason we couldn't have been there at that time, too," said Betty Ordonez, whose granddaughter, Jordan Zepeda, is also in third grade at Mesa Verde.

Our persistent thoughts, concerns, desires, memories, all the things which prevent us from seeing clearly, being clear become smaller until they disappear.