Thinking Quotes

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.

But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness

The mind has powers that allow us to go beyond our normal or habitual way of being, and beyond what we think is possible.

In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

The cold war is over, but cold war thinking survives.

I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.

I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.

A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

If we know God is for us, then it shouldn't matter how we feel, or what other people think of us.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.

You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.

I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs.

I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

[On daughter Liza Minnelli] I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn.

But looking beautiful isn't, I think, as important as feeling beautiful.

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?

If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.

A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.