Thinking Quotes · Page 1,320

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

— Jonathan Tropper

[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.

— Joycelyn Elders

There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

— David Frum

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

— A. N. Wilson

I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.

— Tara Brach

I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of…

— Herman Boerhaave

I don't think that God raised up Internet bloggers to call out wolves - who have an opinion and a website.

— Perry Noble

That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.

— Jenny Downham

What I really liked about Stüssy was that it wasn't the usual surf-culture gear or style. I think it was really inspired…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can…

— Maureen Connolly

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand,…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit…

— Bryant H. McGill

I want to be a very good friend to Indonesia, but there are some things which are non-negotiable. Border protection is just…

— Tony Abbott

His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my…

— Veronica Roth

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know…

— Ashley Jensen

The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War…

— Doris Lessing

When you start becoming a pop star, you think, Hold on a second, maybe my life is different now - maybe all…

— Matthew Healy

I think we have a free will, and at the same moment we don't. We have to live with that. It doesn't…

— Wayne Dyer

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between…

— William Osler

Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving…

— Nick Laird

Steven Spielberg making a Ready Player One movie is going to change the course of human history as pertains to how quickly…

— Ernest Cline

I could have just said I'm good at my job, but I didn't. Didn't want the police thinking I was holding out…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and…

— Muhammad Ali

Visionaries have the unique ability to dream of what's possible and then make it a reality. We are excited to watch these…

— Michael Dell

“what he’s really thinking is: why did I waste all those years in academia when I could have been doing great shit…

— Neal Stephenson

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

— Simon Mawer

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

— Seneca the Younger

Think about the most important things in life and set hard boundaries to protect them.

— Chris Yeh

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in…

— Peter M. Brant

“I made myself speak without thinking. This was the only way I could sound human.”

— F.K. Preston

I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene.

— Mark Shields

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.

— Ethan Coen

I often think about the class differences involved in "jobs" vs. "careers."

— Bill Walsh

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

— Stephen King

I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.

— Terry Tempest Williams

It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation.

— Brenden Morrow

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.

— Alberto Tomba

I don't make a list of questions. Ever. I think a lot of my interviews are driven by my need to feel…

— Marc Maron

I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?

— Melinda Gates