Quotes about thinking

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“I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record…”

“I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.”

“Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.”

“Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.”

“Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art”

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”

“I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.”

“Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.”

“You can't be real," Delilah murmurs.
"Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?”

“You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.”

“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”

“And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't put that past them. Sometimes when they are behind the sofa supposedly purring, I think they are drilling.”

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”

“Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right?
He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!”

“We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don’t spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options.”

“I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”

“We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.”

“Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try.”

“I think reality is overrated.”

“Spending time with you just feels… right, somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just comfortable together, and I remember growing up thinking that one day I wanted to have that, too.”

“Thinking of a series of dreams
Where the time and the tempo fly
And there's no exit in any direction
'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes”

“My Sorrow, when she’s here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.”

“There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.”

“Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.”

“Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.”

“Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.”

“If we can’t stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can’t move forward.”

“I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.”

“Kyo Sohma: angrily pointing at Yuki Just like I'll beat you one of these days
Yuki: looking bored Wait wait I think I've heard this one before”

“I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.”

“Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.”

“Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.”

“You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.”

“But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better.”

“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.”

“You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.”

“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”

“I think it would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.”

“I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”

“There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”

“People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.”

“The vamp in McMann’s stared at me. I guess he didn’t like the Goth look. Most of them don’t; somehow they think I’m making fun of them.
Which I totally am.”

“But I don't think of you.

(Howard Roark)”

“I used to believe. I used to think that if I wanted it bad enough, wished hard enough, everything would work out the way It was supposed to. Destiny, like Susannah said.”

“The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.”

“You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.”

“Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this”

“I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.”

“When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention.”

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”

“Maybe we’ll admit this thing we have is perfect, not worth messing around with. And stay together forever. If you’re interested, that is.”
She glanced away. “I could think about that.”
He buried his face in her neck. “Think fast”

“Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”

“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”

“I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.”

“He shook his head in mock sympathy. "I tell you, Sage. Sometimes I think I am the one who needs to take out the restraining order on you.”

“We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.”

“What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.”

“I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.”

“He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.”

“I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.”

“As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.”

“… sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"
“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”

“sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.”

“I don't think I can do it alone," I said. I had a feeling thewasn't really meant to be cast alone: as if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with.”

“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.”

“People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they’re wrong: Proximity makes the heart grow fonder.”

“She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence… they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good…”

“Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.”

“All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.”

“The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.”

“I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.”

“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. They are the real heroes, and so are the families and friends who have stood by them.”

“But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.”

“I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case… I love you.”

“It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.”

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

“Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself—anyone who thinks that they do is destined for mediocrity.”

“I think every woman should have a blowtorch.”

“And he thinks that if his soul had a form, this is what it would be. A baby sleeping in his arms.”

“Oh, Claire," he said. "You think me a far better man than I am. That's kind, and flattering."
"Are you saying that you -"

"Doughnuts!" Myrnin interrupted her and darted away, to zip back in seconds with an open box.”

“The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.”

“If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.”

“Popularity means people think they know you.”

“Season of Joy:
She asked me when the season of joy was supposed to end & I said I didn't really think there was an exact date, so we left the tree up till June that year.”

“You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think… of any man as damned.”

“Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.”

“Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.”

“I think,” Jace said, “that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because…”

“I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast.”

“I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life.”

“I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms”

“To Thetis,
Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that.
-Seth”

“Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.”

“My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.
I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,
I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them”

“Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.”

“It’s okay,” said Alec. “I once walked in on you and Isabelle. I guess turnabout’s fair play.” He frowned. “Although you two were in my room at the time, so actually I think you still owe me.”

“The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.”

“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”

“people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.”