Quotes about thinking

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“I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.”

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.”

“That’s the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.”

“Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.”

“I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt.”

“I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts. To let each train of thought run to its conclusion and let a new one begin. It keeps me thinking. I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.”

“The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.”

“When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.”

“There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.”

“You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.”

“No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.”

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”

“If you think you can - you can!
If you think you can not - you can not!
And either way…….. you are right!”

“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.”

“These are the multiple shadows because there were a lot of things she walked away from without a word of explanation when she was younger & she still thinks about them more than she needs to.”

“My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.”

“How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.”

“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think.”

“I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.”

“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.”

“The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad?

What do you think?

Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here.

Yeah.

You don't think that's so great.

It's okay.”

“Isn't it pretty to think so.”

“You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly.
"Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.”

“down with ought with because with every brain that thinks it thinks nor dares to feel.”

“don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?”

“Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.”

“Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay”

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”

“Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.”

“All that matters to me is the man in front of me right now. (Tory)
I’m not a man, Soteria. (Acheron)
I know. But if you think your godhood excuses you from putting the toilet seat down, think again. (Tory)”

“You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.”

“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”

“You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile."
"You think my smile is beguiling?”

“He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.”

“To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.”

“Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?”

“I am yours," Trent gasped through clenched teeth, and my hand sprang from him, thinking I was betrayed. Trent fell to a knee, looking up at me, pleading. "I. Am. Yours. Claim me, Rachel! Damn your morals and claim me!”

“We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever”

“I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”

“When we stop caring about what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. When we become defined by what people think, we lose our willingness to be vulnerable.”

“I prefer to think that I'm liar in a way that's uniquely my own.”

“The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.”

“I think that this scene is upsetting because it calls us beyond fact into the vast world of imagination, and imagination is a word of many dimensions.”

“I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.”

“I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.”

“everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death”

“She wants me to take out Patton.”

Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?”

“No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.”

“In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.”

“I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.”

“To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head”

“Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.

(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)”

“The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.”

“People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History”

“All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered.”

“Isabelle: Do you want some soup?
Jace: No
Isabelle: Do you think Hodge will want some soup?
Jace: No one wants soup
Simon: I want some soup!
Jace: No, you don't. You just want to sleep with Isabelle”

“i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer”

“Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.”

“Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.”

“I don't know how it is… but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.”

“I think we deserve a happily-ever-after."
"If anyone ever did, it's us.”

“As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.”

“I will have you know I practiced that speech. In front of a mirror before you got here."
"So what do you think it meant?"
"I'm not sure," Jace admitted, "but I know I look damn good delivering it.”

“I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.”

“Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.'
Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.”

“He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!"

"As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.”

“I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.”

“I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.”

“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.”

“If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.”

“Sam doesn't hesitate for a minute.
'You say, "Mr and Mrs Tavish, you're making me feel inferior. Do you really think I'm inferior or is it just in my mind?”

“I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.”

“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.”

“I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid”

“It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.”

“I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.”

“Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.”

“I’m not attached to anything.
I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty.
I think that I will die with the boots on.”

“There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.”

“I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.”

“Piece of Heaven?"

"No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking.”

“Fang. I had to do some thinking about him.
Me. I had some thinking to do about me too.”

“"Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to…to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games," says Peeta.”

“Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.”

“It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”

“I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.”

“The window was still open,” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close that window or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever.”

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”

“Come and have a go, if you think you're hard enough”

“I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.”

“a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.”

“I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.”

“My life has been one great big joke,
A dance that's walked,
A song that's spoke,
I laugh so hard I almost choke,
When I think about myself.”

“How are you? How is your wonderful bathroom? How are the books you read and the things you think? Your dogs and their lives? The weather? Your feelings?”

“If you leave me naked and waiting on the bed without making love to me, I’ll—” I didn’t get to finish the threat. I think it was the word “naked,” though maybe it was “bed,” but before I finished my sentence, he was on me. Mercy to Adam”

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

“View your life with KINDSIGHT. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, “What was I thinking,” breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, “What was I learning?”

“My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity… and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself.”

“There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said.
‘Do you think that all children’s books ought to have funny bits in them?’ Miss Honey asked.
‘I do,’ Matilda said. ‘Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.”