Thinking Quotes · Page 1,025

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

— Bob Feller

No matter what the past has dealt you, don't let it destroy your future.

— Nelson Mandela

“It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections.

— Wayne LaPierre

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

— Bertrand Russell

We don't think there are cases where people were evicted out of homes when they shouldn't have been.

— Jamie Dimon

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

— Joaquin Phoenix

I think a show can work anywhere if it's done honestly, with integrity, and with confidence.

— Joey McIntyre

I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting…

— Art Spiegelman

We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in…

— Eugene O'Neill

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

— Michael Porter

[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what…

— Oliver Stone

In some ways, I think 'Pulp Fiction' hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of…

— Roger Avary

Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously…

— Edith Head

I think the most important feeling in the world is friendship. The friendship between Michiru and Haruka is so strong, that it…

— Naoko Takeuchi

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece…

— John Kander

Well, I've just played a midwife but never for a second would I think that I could ever deliver a baby! So,…

— Christine Bottomley

To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in…

— Wendell Berry

Life isn't like a Full House episode. There isn't going to be an easy out to every conflict. There is no milkman,…

— Jodi Sweetin

Did you ever notice, when you are sitting at a red light, that when the person in front of you pulls up…

— Jerry Seinfeld

Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was…

— Ian Rankin

Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to…

— Anonymous

I do not believe that Russians changed the outcome of the election. I want to be clear about that. But I do…

— Marco Rubio

Sometimes the messages I put out are somewhat of that [street] nature, but the thing is, that's not the person, it's just…

— Project Pat

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

— Michael Morpurgo

I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in…

— Avan Jogia

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to…

— Linda Cardellini

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

— William Gibson

So I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we…

— Nia Long

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

— John Ruskin

Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.

— Lauren Mayberry

We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.

— Oswald Chambers

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want…

— Lily Rabe

I think every woman should have leopard, but not every woman will wear leopard. You have to have courage to wear leopard.

— Rachel Zoe

The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the context of…

— Uwe Reinhardt

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as…

— Karin Slaughter

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

— Douglas Adams

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination…

— Amy Sedaris

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

— Robert Breault