Thinking Quotes · Page 694

I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like: I am the gay parent,

— Rosie O'Donnell

Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.

— William DeWitt Hyde

My curiosity is not a choice. It's always been part of me. I think of it as a vital organ.

— Lizz Winstead

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

— Peter S. Prescott

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

— Huangbo Xiyun

The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I don't think there's ever a time where I step back and say I wish I was something different. I'm doing what…

— Sidney Crosby

People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than…

— Anonymous

I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in…

— Erica Brown

Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn't need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more…

— Jenni Schaefer

I think people everywhere have a very dismaying feeling that politics are going over their heads, are being decided by wealthy interests…

— Alexander Stille

I can't think of many reasons as to why, but gay men and straight women both share an inherent attraction to men,…

— Gideon Glick

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an…

— Chaim Potok

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much…

— Dean Koontz

When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying…

— Ani DiFranco

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having…

— David Guterson

The politics of grievance is pervasive. It's spreading. And when you have an economy that has been ripped to shreds like this,…

— Rush Limbaugh

We get crazy when we can't make things be like the world tells us they are". She looked back out the window.…

— Chris Crutcher

When I am at peace with myself . . . then thoughts flow into me most easily and at their best. Where…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I’m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time. I think that if you don’t loose your…

— Christina Ricci

I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I mean, being provincial is a privilege in a way. Also people in New York think everybody interacts because they all take…

— Meghan Daum

I think when you take the job, you automatically assume that you work for the president. And you are part of a…

— Nikki Haley

In the eight years I worked at newspapers, even during a little stretch when I was a film critic, I was never,…

— Chuck Klosterman

I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.

— Anonymous

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They…

— Kate DiCamillo

People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status…

— Jennifer James

If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you.

— Leonard Sweet

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

— LeBron James

I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.

— Tyra Banks

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

— Robert Mankoff

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I…

— Taylor Phinney

I'm not even thinking about going back to play football at all. My mind's made up. I'm done.

— Keyshawn Johnson

A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks…

— Peter S. Beagle

I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get…

— Roger Ballen

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.

— St. Lucia

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

— Baltasar Gracian

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

— Milan Kundera