Quotes about thinking

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“Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.”

“Young lady," Silk said urbanely, "I think you'd be amazed at how little Polgara's concerned about who you are."
"Polgara?" Ce'Nedra faltered. "Polgara? I thought you said that she was your sister."
"I lied," Silk confessed. "It's a vice a have.”

“Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.”

“I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez”

“You destroy buildings, fight monsters openly in the streets of the city, work with the police, show up in newspapers, advertise in the phone book, and ride zombie dinosaurs down Michigan Avenue, and think that you work in the shadows? Be reasonable.”

“You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.”

“Would like to join me? (Astrid)
I think I’d look strange in a bikini. (Zarek)
Was that a joke? Can it be you made a real joke? (Astrid)
Yeah, I must be possessed or something. (Zarek)”

“Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”

“I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.”

“I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.”

“They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)”

“How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!”

“We all know that it is women who make the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.”

“Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.”

“He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness.”

“Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.”

“I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.”

“Keep me preoccupied
Keep me busy, busy, busy
So I won't have to think
I don't want to think
Because it only brings me pain
I just keep running away from
My problems
Keep me busy
Give me a million things to do
So I can keep running away from myself.”

“This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.”

“An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”

“I think, therefore I doubt.”

“You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!”

“I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.”

“It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).”

“The problem is not that it's too difficult for children, but that it's too difficult for grown ups. Much of the world view of Einstein's thinking wasn't being taught when the grown ups were in school, but the children were comfortably familiar with it.”

“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think”

“If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives,
then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls.
You think their ways are wrong.
They think you are dinner.”

“I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.”
“Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.”

“It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go there”

“I think many people ill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.”

“While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.”

“Brian Andreas Promise #1:
Promises to Myself #1: I will tell the truth unless I get confused & I think I could get in real trouble if someone found out, in which case, I will lie as convincingly as possible for as long as I feel the need.”

“I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.”

“I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”

“A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.”

“During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.”

“How the hell do you think I feel?" I don't want to end up inside a woman!" He paused. "Well, at least not that way”

“The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.”

“I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.”

“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”

“Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.”

“I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.”

“When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.”

“And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that”

“It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.”

“Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn’t.”

“Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.”

“Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.”

“You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.”

“He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.”

“I think that the point is that people rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.”

“Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.”

“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.”

“I still don't think it's pathetic to cry over someone. It just means you care about them deeply and you're sad.”

“Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.”

“Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.”

“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.”

“He was waving. "Saukerl," she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a Saumensch. I think that's as close to love as eleven-year-olds can get.”

“Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble,
His brain is just not in the pink,
His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double,
Because everyone needs him to think.”

“I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.”

“If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.”

“Please, Achimou? (Tory)
You are the only being who’s ever called me that. (Acheron)
Well, I’d call you babycakes, but I think that might offend you even more. (Tory)”

“It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique. But I begin to think I was never meant for an easy road.”

“God, I needed you," he murmured. "I can't even tell you how many times I thought about this. The funny thing is, I don't need you any less now. I think I need you more."
~Shane~”

“For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?”

“As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.”

“Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.”

“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”

“Is he nuts?"
"I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'."
"So that would be a yes.”

“The past is never where you think you left it.”

“I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly.
"Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.”

“Think you can maybe not die for five minutes?"
"I'll try,"I told him seriously.
"You know, if anyone else said that, it would be funny.”

“What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.”

“You think you know your possibilities.
Then other people come into your life
and suddenly there are so many more.”

“Ask me not where I live or what I like to eat… Ask me what I am living for and what I think is keeping me from living fully that.”

“Never think you've seen the last of anything.”

“They attacked you? (Danger)
No, I beat my own self up. What do you think? (Keller)”

“When I told you that I’d pray for you, what did you think I was talking about?”

“I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.”

“Andrea: "…. I think a dog is a great idea. I just never pictured you with a mutant poodle.”
Kate: “He isn’t a poodle. He’s a Doberman mix."
Andrea: “Aha. Keep telling yourself that.”

“So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask.
Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks.
"Whatever it takes to break you.”

“I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.”

“They say that God is everywhere and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse.”

“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”

“It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.”

“I think I wished for you all of my life.”

“But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.”

“The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.”

“I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the way I think you even if that's only my own thinking and not you.”

“Surprise me, Atlantean. Attack. This isn’t a dance party. (Takeshi)
You know, this isn’t building my confidence. In fact, I think I’m just going to lie here for a bit and take in some sun. (Acheron)”

“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”

“Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd. Courage moral and physical: “anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.”

“I think I made you up inside my head.”

“Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.”

“I don’t think my sister is old enough to have sex.”

“V, she’s the same age you are.”

He frowned for a moment. Was she? Or had he been born first?”

“Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone’ll throw you a shovel.” – Chloe Traeger”

“My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning.”

“I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.”

“[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy… Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.”