Thinking Quotes

I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.

It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better.

I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.

It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's

I am loyal to my beloved Joffrey. (Sansa) No doubt. As loyal as a deer surrounded by wolves. (Tyrion) Lions, she whispered without thinking.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices.

They were never my pack, not even Hot Pie and Gendry. I was stupid to think so, just a stupid little girl, and no wolf at all.

Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded. Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a horse,' she said sweetly taking a brief satisfaction in the shock on the septa's face.

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.

When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That's actually where it all comes from.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

I think something that I can't name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.

I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is the quality of the split-second decisions you made.

I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

We all think we know what happens after death. But maybe it's going to be not only weird but also dorky and comic and inconsistent.

When I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented.

Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.

I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.

When somebody you've known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can be huge. I think in a sense what you're trying to re-create in fiction is that.

While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature of oneself.

I think if someone could demonstrate to me that fiction did no good, I would still do it, because I think it does good for me.

I think that feels like it to me. I mean whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.

I think the path for a young writer might be one that says, "I have to accept myself, this is what I am. I can't eradicate my defects. I can work on them."

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can deny it.

The demographics are changing - and so what? Citizenship is a question of certain agreed-upon values and that is that. Do we believe that? I think at heart we do.

I think this is the other big issue that is not going away: Do we really believe that bit in the Constitution or not? I think we do.

The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system. Once you've seen it that way, it always seems that way.

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I think - finding new ways of being poetic.

I think the wave of social media rejection is coming. I think there will be a big reaction against it. It's just like sugar- - mean, I loved it as a kid.

I think when you get to export your creative impulse into something, it kind of lessens that busy energy that can be so confrontational and pissy.

I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost can be a very powerful but also manipulative element.

I think when you see [Donald] Trump in person, my reaction is you kind of enjoy it. It's kind of an enjoyable night out.

A person supporting [Donald]Trump likes Trump. And I think they would say the same about me.

I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.

Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that its much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.