Thoughtful Quotes · Page 8

“Men who were thoughtful and considerate were rare no matter what their age.”

— Anonymous

“I’ll call you a thoughtful critic if you agree to call me a fascinating blogger.”

— Venkatesh G. Rao

“With graceful deviations in which caprice is blended with virtuosity”

— Marcel Proust

“Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.”

— Patrick Ness

“If you are writing and no-one reads it, are you a writer, or you just writing?”

— Matt Drabble

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

— Mason Cooley

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

— William Butler Yeats

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

— Earl Nightingale

Thinking you should have helped someone is good. But thinking you could have, is bad.

— Francisco Quinonez

I'm progressive in some ways, old-fashioned in others. I like it when guys hold the door open and are sweet and thoughtful.

— Nina Dobrev

“He was still thoughtful. 'Do you think any of us ever really knows anyone?' 'Philosophy, Lord Dryden? And yet it's daylight and…

— Julie Anne Long

I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide…

— Wendy O. Williams

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

— Mick Jagger

Stand-up is cool. In stand-up, you get to learn about yourself if you do it from a thoughtful place.

— Ramy Youssef

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Life is not all about accomplishment; it's all about doing, participating, progressing, growing, learning.

— Mike Hernacki

War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today,…

— George F. Kennan

I'm a lot smarter and thoughtful of a comedian. This market is different than it was. You don't have to have cable…

— Joe Torry

I try to be measured and thoughtful about what I put out there because I know a lot of young people follow…

— Jenny Han

[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt…

— Wilfrid Sellars

“Like a procession you walk together towards your god-self. You are the way and the wayfarers. And when one of you falls…

— Kahlil Gibran

“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime…

— Judith Kelman

“Yes Tatie, and you and Chink always talking about how to make things true, writing them, and put them rightly and not…

— Ernest Hemingway

But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity…

— Sam Abell

Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person…

— Chelsea Handler

Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd…

— John Green

The center has had the challenge of always having to be reasonable, balanced. If you're on the right, you can reach to…

— Justin Trudeau

Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil…

— Bill Mollison

Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described…

— Gilbert Ryle

Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the…

— Robert Rubin

Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for…

— Dave Barry

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

There are lives to brighten. There are hearts to touch. There are souls to save.

— Thomas S. Monson

Being a skeptical and thoughtful consumer of polls is essential.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I like people to be authentic, thoughtful, and honest.

— Robert Rinder

I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops.

— Jeremy Schoemaker

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

— Walter Lippmann

Publicly leading a church in prayer deserves thoughtful preparation.

— Kevin DeYoung