Thinking Quotes

I think I'm more European in personality.

What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long.

There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

In the pressure cooker of a TV show, it’s a little bit of a witches’ brew. I completely think I’m capable of being crazy. I probably was crazy when I was doing 'The Simpsons'.

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

Energy is always paramount when hosting a live show, because you need every synapse firing, so you can think fast on your feet.

I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.

I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?

it's impossible I should have a mind and I have one

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

A lot of people tend to think I'm a dogmatic ideologue, which I'm not.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.

I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.

I think people are a little bit intimidated by me. You know, I'm not exactly a wilting flower, so I think they're a little bit scared of me sometimes.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.

I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really intimate scenes, as long as you get on well, and have a bit of a laugh while doing it, then it's fine.

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

Whenever I pick up a jacket and it's heavy, I think, 'Oh, I don't want to wear that.'

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.