Thinking Quotes

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

I don't think my parents know what I do.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

When I have failed as an actor I've always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn't want the actors to think it was their fault.

Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.

Too much thinking, not enough feeling.

We may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within.

The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.

Sometimes I get scared that I’m going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be bad.

Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.

I can tell you that I think America is safer today than it was on 9/11. But that doesn't mean that we don't have a long way to go.

I think [social media] is fundamentally restructuring the whole nature of information and how it's expressed in America.

The question is not whether you would like to be president or not. The question is: Do you think you can win and do you want to run? And none of those are clear to me.

I just think that we ought to protect the Social Security fund.

I don't think we are comforted by the fact that we were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States and obviously that's not correct.

The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.

I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick.

I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.

I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment.

Americans want to win; bin Laden thinks he's winning now.

I think that decisions should rest in the hands of the states. I'm a federalist.

Reform, prosperity, and peace, these are major challenges to the United States of America. I don't think I need any on-the-job training. I'm ready to go at it right now.

I think it's an urgent plea for us all to sit down together.

If the United States had not intervened in Afghanistan, then obviously, we would have then allowed the attacks of 9/11 to go unanswered. I don't think most of Americans wanted that to happen.

I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

I think my mother was very spiritual.

I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was . . . it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were.

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

I think that if you're a good enough actor you hope that eventually the material will find you.

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

Now I've got that [life is a journey not a destination] tattooed on my arm because it just reminds me of that time, and I think it's just an amazing quote.

I would kill to do more work with Orla Brady, I think she's that gifted.

Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.

Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes.

I don't really think of Valentines Day as much of a holiday, you should show love for people you care about everyday.

I never like to think of anything from an ending point.

I don't think I'm identified as the anchorman, I think I'm identified as the impostor anchorman - there's a very clear line there ... I don't think it changes the way they respond.