Quotes about thinking

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“AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”

“Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”

“Wouldn't. Think. About. Ian.”

“The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."… So, what breaks your heart?”

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”

“I think we are in rats’ alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.”

“Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.”

“I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.”

“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”

“Do you think she’ll catch him before he gets to the hall?”
“My mom’s spent her whole life chasing me around,” Clary said. “She moves fast.”

“I think the sun is a flower,
That blooms for just one hour.”

“help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more”

“I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant”

“Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.”

“Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.”

“If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.”

“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”

“I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”

“It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are
not.”

“Bug? You sack of sweat stink. I've got farts that smell sweeter than you. Think you're better than me? Poop ice cream cones, do you? Call me a bug! Rachel, let me do him now.”

“Let me ask you something,” Simon said. “Do you find me fascinating to be around?”
“What was that?” Jace said. “Sorry, I think I fell asleep for a moment. Do, continue with
whatever mesmerizing thing you were saying.”

“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”

“Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell”

“Hello, I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind.
If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman.”

“I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time”

“You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient.”

“I like to think that when I fall,
A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea,
This shelf of books along the wall,
Beside my bed, will mourn for me.”

“If you think you can grasp me, think again:
my story flows in more than one direction
a delta springing from the riverbed
with its five fingers spread”

“I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.”

“One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.”

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”

“… most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.”

“Can I love someone… and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.”

“As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem”

“Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.”

“Everyone is in pain. No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one”

“Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.”

“There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface.

There is, I think, a fear of love.

There is a fear of love.”

“And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion.”

“When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.”

“In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.”

“I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.”

“Vin isn't… like other women."
Tindwyl raised an eyebrow, her voice softening slightly.
"I think that the more women you come to know, Your Majesty, the more you'll find that statement applies to all of them.”

“I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?”

“You're thinking I'm a hopelessly romantic idiot.
And you know what?
You're right.”

“Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.”

“Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.”

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”

“Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.”

“You look confused," said Adrian.
I shook my head and sighed. "I think I'm just overthinking things."
He nodded solemnly. "That's why I try to never do it.”

“It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?”

“There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.”

“It is spiritless to think that you cannot attain to that which you have seen and heard the masters attain. The masters are men. You are also a man. If you think that you will be inferior in doing something, you will be on that road very soon.”

“When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.
- Sleepless in Seattle”

“I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.”

“If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray.”

“Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.”

“I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.”

“In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.”

“Warlord, you once told me I'd always know what you're thinking. What are your thoughts now?"

"Partly, I'm thinking that I might shame myself in my trews, just from the feel of you next to me.”

“It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.”

“You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.”

“I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.”

“Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.”

“I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.”

“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.”

“You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. "Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they see Rex the Wonder Horse. Women look at themselves and think they need to renew their membership at the gym.”

“Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.”

“Are you telling me you think Ranger's a superhero?'
Think about it. We don't know where he lives. We don't know anything about him.'
Superheroes are make-believe.'
Oh yeah?' Lula said. 'What about God?”

“The problem I have with all this religion stuff is that I can't relate to it. I think most people got into 'cos it gave them something to do on a Sunday, but since all the shops are now open it isn't required as much.”

“You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!"
Gilan and Halt.
The Ruins of Gorlan.”

“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”

“There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.”

“I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.”

“I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.”

“The Beautiful Poem"

I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking
about you.

Pissing a few moments ago
I looked down at my penis
affectionately.

Knowing it has been inside
you twice today makes me
feel beautiful.”

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”

“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”

“I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.”

“If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.”

“April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”

“You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei”

“An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“Have you called the alphas?"

"Yes."

"The rats, too?"

He bristled. "What about the rats?"

"They think you're hiding information from them"

"I hide information from everyone. Do they think they're special?”

“As he mused about these things, he realised that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.”

“All the best,
Sydney

P. S. "The Red Hurricane" is what I named the car.
P. P. S. Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still don't think you're an evil creature of the night. You are.”

“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.”

“I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.”

“If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.”

“Grover: It’s a very sweet love story. I get misty-eyed every time I play it. So does Percy, but I think that’s because he’s laughing at me.”

“For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.”

“I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.”

“You can’t protect yourself. No matter how safe you think you are. No matter how much precaution you take, the rodents always find a way in.’ (Kiara)”

“Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions.”

“Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.”

“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?”

“Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.

So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.”

“I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.”