Thinking Quotes

No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?

I respect Sarah Palin. I appreciate her and her husband enormously. I think she will continue to play a major role in the future of the Republican Party.

I think, again, neither of these candidates [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] is blowing me away. Actually, I would like both of them to get more policy specific.

I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.

I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

Think globally, act locally, think tribally, act universally.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.

I think the glue that held Fringe together was the relationships.

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.

I think I'm just a summer fling that people will soon forget.

I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead.

Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.

It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

I think as a human being, if you can do something to impact someone's life, that's about the greatest accomplishment you can have.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

You become what you focus on and like the people you spend time with.

Until you can see, and admit, that YOU are the problem... You will be unable to realize that YOU must be the solution.

You are the average of your five closest associates.

Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you.

These younger kids - I think growing up with social media, they're just savvy.

I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov't.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.

Frank Lampard is the best ever at Chelsea and one of the best I've ever played with and against in world football today, and I think what set him apart was his dedication and hard work.

I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it.