Thinking Quotes

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors; and many atheistical, not for the denying of God, but for thinking somewhat peculiarly concerning him.

If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think thats what really started me off.

I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

I think hope is key, in life and in art.

If you're gonna take people on a journey that deals with some pretty heavy themes, I think you best have a sense of humor, here and there.

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.

I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They were very sweet to me.

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

Lukewarm people think about life on earth much more often than eternity in heaven.

...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.

My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim. He put his hand upon my shoulder, He did not think me strange or older, Nor I, him.

To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.

I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.

I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard to tell the difference sometimes.

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?

I never liked sleeping; I always think I am missing something.

You think of luxury when you think of Calvin Klein. He created this lifestyle that's really desirable, so our whole project has that quality of being lasting.

Every time I go out to the mound, I think about where I come from and what I used to have.

I know that sometimes you have to reason with yourself and say, "This is just TV" or "This is just a movie," but I think also as an actor it's your job to find it so very important.

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously)

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.

I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not just an economic property.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.