Thinking Quotes

There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.

I don't think [Mitt] Romney can sit there and wait to win because perhaps people are disappointed with President [Barack] Obama.

If you look at the polls - the conservatives are fine.I think there will be a fair amount of enthusiasm, or at least motivation. They very much want to remove President [Barack] Obama.

I am on the whole a defender of the current, despite being a conservative. I mean, I think things are better than when I was younger.

I don't think you want political parties that are entirely driven by some extremely doctrinal ideology.

Obviously I think politics is interesting and important and educational.

He has a competent person, I think who will be confirmed as HHS secretary, Congressman Tom Price.

Donald Trump beat Jeb Bush and beat Hillary Clinton. And when everyone thinks of Donald Trump that's pretty impressive.

I think [Donald Trump] will do something on immigration.

Look, at actual Republican and conservative think-tank proposals to replace ObamaCare all have the pre-existing condition provision in, done somewhat differently from [Barack] President Obama's.

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

I think, when God told Moses, "Thou shall not kill," I think God meant, "Thou shall not kill." And within the next one hundred years, we will see that God was right.

I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.

I don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot more movies for a lot less money. You can really do it.

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get on to something. I always run out with lines as I think of them.

It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.

You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.

I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.

I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.

It's always fun to try something new. People think every avenue has been explored on TV, but this has never been done. That, in itself, really excites me.

I did my own thinking. I have never given it out to be done by others as one gives out washing.

We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.

Deep thinking in the ranks leads only to drinking.

Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.

I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

I think Judge Learned Hand was a cultured, intelligent man.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.

I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.

By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.

You don't overturn a previous court's decisions lightly and I think most Americans are somewhere in the middle on abortion and there's not going to be a revolution here at all.

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!

A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

O you beast! I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron, That you shall think the devil is come from hell.

I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.