Thinking Quotes · Page 583

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

I think the men and women serving in Iraq today deserve special recognition for that.

— Jeff Bingaman

People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

— Tom Stoppard

Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.

— Billie Jean King

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

— Aristotle

I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

— Penn Jillette

If I bare my soul in bits and make it personal, I think people can sense that when they hear it.

— Kieran Hebden

It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you…

— Chris Chelios

We live in a culture of a big me. We're encouraged - we raise our kids to think how great they are,…

— David Brooks

One of Dr. Johnson's ingredients of happiness was, "A little less time than you want." That means always to have so many…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at…

— Tina Fey

When you see how people in the developing world react and how they use a camera, you realise how narcissistic we are…

— Kevin Macdonald

The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended…

— Maya Angelou

Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I…

— Gil Gerard

I don't think I'd have done comedy if I was born eighty years ago I'd have been a lord. Shooting people that…

— Noel Fielding

I cannot sing karaoke because it's hard and weird. If I actually tried to sing, I would probably sound good, and I…

— Skylar Astin

Once you are in that ring things happen that you don't expect. There is nothing you can plan for. At the end…

— Chris Eubank, Jr

A sort of fearlessness - the notion that a person could be comfortable with (even interested in) whatever arises. I sure can't…

— George Saunders

My parents took me to shows starting when I was a very little kid. I remember seeing Henry IV at the Shakespeare…

— Nick Blaemire

Not everyone wants to know everything their partner did. Maybe it's enough to say, "Things aren't going well in our marriage. I've…

— Cheryl Strayed

In the age of the camera phone it's a bit weird when you're sitting having dinner in a restaurant and people think…

— Hugh Bonneville

Soooo," Arriane said. "Now you've met Randy." "I thought his name was Cam." "We're not talking about him," Arriane said quickly. "I…

— Lauren Kate

This is also evident in Europe, not the dependence on oil and gas, but the fact that structural reforms are long overdue,…

— Vladimir Putin

I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical…

— Richard Dawkins

I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.

— Alicia Keys

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

— Bill Hicks

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

— David Strathairn

More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.

— Seth Godin

Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.

— Carl Sagan

No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

— Mitch Albom

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

— Tom Robbins

You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating.

— Benjamin Graham

Avery: "So I've been doing some thinking." Cam: "Oh God." Avery: "Shut up.

— J. Lynn

We're not troubled at all, but I think...Well, we're Scandinavians! We're Vikings and we have a lot of blackness in our souls.

— Nina Persson

I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm…

— Kumi Naidoo

I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.

— John Cena

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

— Graham Swift

“The age measured from the date of birth is just a number, The mental age always makes the difference”

— Ramy El-Mahdy

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

— Cliff Martinez

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

— Steve Coogan