Quotes about thinking
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“So that plan worked out well.'

Skulduggery, your entire plan consisted of, and I quote, "Let's get up close and then see what happens."'

All the same,' he said, 'I think the whole thing worked out rather beautifully.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Playing with Fire

Quotes

“Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?"
I do face facts," Meg said.
They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

Life, People

“Ivory's the kind of girl who gets drunk and immediately starts slurring. I have a lot of friends like that, and I think it's because it makes me look 'more together.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Girl

“Thisabout Tessa. I knew it was."
Will flushed, a wash of color across the pallor of this face. "Not just her."
"But you love her."
Will stared at him. "Of course I do," he said finally. "I had come to think i would never love anyone, but I love her.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Love, Color

“Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

Feeling

“Some choices are forever…. Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa.”

Wendy Mass Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

People

“Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

Chance

“I narrowed my eyes at it. Ming-de’s little gift, I assumed. “You look better in color,” I snapped.
He sent me a sultry look over his shoulder. “Really? Most women think I look better in nothing at all.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Embrace the Night

Women, Color

“Billions of things are going on in this world. You can think about it all you want, but life is still going to keep on happening.”

Michael Singer (1945) American landscape architect

Source: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Life, World

“Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: A Long Way Down

Way

“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Life, Way, Change

“Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

People, Books

“I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Intelligence

“I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.”

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014) writer

Source: Mr. Wrong

“Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.”

Margaret Atwood book Dancing Girls

Source: Dancing Girls

“Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.”

Anita Shreve book The Weight of Water

Source: The Weight of Water

Water, Time, Hurt

“I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.”

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

Source: Death Masks

“Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Love, Chance

“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.”

John Marsden (1950) author

Source: The Dead of Night

“Okay, so she is crazy. I don’t care. I think I love her.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

Love

“Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase

Fools, Time, Clothes

“Above all else, never think you're not good enough.”

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) English novelist (1815-1882)

“The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

People, Reality

“You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal

Variant: She smiled a little. "You are a manipulator"
"I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.
Source: Lover Eternal

“I rather think he knew anyway.”

Jonathan Stroud (1970) British writer of fantasy fiction

“Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.”

Connie Brockway (1954) American writer

Source: The Bridal Season

People

“I could never leave,' Pine Sap said.
'Why?' she asked.
Pine Sap shrugged, and gestured in the direction of the village. 'Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are my bones.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

People

“One of Us:
Someday, the light will shine like a sun through my skin & they will say, What have you done with your life? & though there are many moments I think I will remember, in the end, I will be proud to say, I was one of us.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Life, Light, Sun

“Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.”

Douglas Rushkoff (1961) writer, American media theorist

Books, Soul

“I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in… loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.”

Robin McKinley book Sunshine

Source: Sunshine

Fate, Happiness, World

“A jewel's just a rock put under enourmous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

People

“I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

“Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

Life, Way

“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”

Christopher Isherwood book Goodbye to Berlin

Source: "Berlin Diary" (1930) from Goodbye to Berlin (1939)

“What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!”

Margaret Atwood book The Edible Woman

Source: The Edible Woman

Education, Time

“You gotta wonder about someone who would be dumb enough to fallo a person as crazy as him!
wait, I think I just insulted myself
- ganju”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Waiting, Personality

“If you want someone to tell you what to think…"

"You will never be short of people willing to do so.”

Frances Hardinge book Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

People

“Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Source: Gregor the Overlander

World, Sadness

“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Variant: "No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala

Time

“Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don’t think any less of you for it. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Pain

“Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Boy, Learning

“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.”

Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) British writer

People, Tea

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: Meditations

Happiness

“All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Children, Food, Parent

“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“It’s funny," I said. "It’s very funny. And it’s a lot of fun, too, to be in love."

"Do you think so?" her eyes looked flat again.

"I don’t mean fun that way. In a way it’s an enjoyable feeling."

"No," she said. "I think it’s hell on earth.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

Love, Way, Feeling, Hell

“I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning.”

Rosemary Sutcliff (1920–1992) English author

Change, Parting

“No doubt she was thinking, Who dressed this poor girl like a traffic light?”

Rick Riordan book The Hidden Oracle

Source: The Hidden Oracle

Girl, Light

“Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Happiness, Sadness, Faith, Dogs

“Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Past

“In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.”

Natsuo Kirino book Grotesque

Source: Grotesque

Women, Men, Water

“Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.”

Donald A. Norman book The Design of Everyday Things

Source: The Design of Everyday Things

“This must be what an addict feels like, I think,
trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Books, Feeling, Reading, Fight

“I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Way, Understanding, Country

“What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Past

“Thinking is not always… comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.”

Robin Hobb book Royal Assassin

Source: Royal Assassin

“I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.”

Jean Paul Sartre No Exit

Source: No Exit (1944)

Life, Death

“Fortunate is the one who knows the name of their heart. They are the ones whose hearts are never truly lost. They can always call their heart back home.
Do you remember the name of your heart, Simon Lewis?”
“I think so,” Simon whispered.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Bitter of Tongue

Home, Heart

“Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.”

Marilyn French (1929–2009) Novelist, critic

Source: Her Mother's Daughter

Forgetting

“I think I'll move to Australia.”

Judith Viorst book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Source: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

“I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.”

Bram Stoker (1847–1912) Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula

Source: The New Annotated Dracula

Women, Fear

“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Men

“I'd do almost anything for you. I think I'd kill for you. But I'm not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. - Gage Travis”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Cry

“They will come back, come back again,
As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree.
Do you think he would squander souls?”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Soul, Tree

“However, because they have no actual interests of their own (or if they do, they squelch them in order to fit in) and merely pursue those that they think will look best on their college apps, they're zombies.”

Meg Cabot book Airhead

Source: Airhead

“You think I'm not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you'll burn.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

“When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Happiness, Way, Cats, Mood

“I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.”

Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist

“I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Home

“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Variant: I don't want to be somebody's crush. if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what they think i am. And i don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so i can feel it too. - Sam
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Feeling

“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously."

[(Robert Jacobs,, February 1976)]”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Life

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you
want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Fear, Home, Confidence, Courage

“If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

People

“I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. I think that would be nice.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Moms, Birthday

“But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Enchanted Glass

Source: Enchanted Glass

People, Learning

“I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Variant: Will-"
"I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and when you're this close to me, I forget who you are. I forget you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.
Source: Clockwork Princess

Love, Personality, Forgetting