Thinking Quotes · Page 858

What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.

— John Irving

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.

— Gillian Flynn

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on…

— William Hazlitt

You should be thinking about the team first, and that's the mind-set.

— Shaquill Griffin

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.

— Darren Criss

Some people think I look like a sweet potato, I consider myself a spud with a heart of gold.

— Shirley MacLaine

[I attach] little importance to physical size. I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. The stars may…

— Frank P. Ramsey

What they're still unsure about, particularly some moderate Republicans, we know gender there is difference, I think Donald Trump has to seal…

— John Brabender

I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult…

— Judy Blume

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker…

— Mary Henle

After all you've put me through, you would think I despise you, but in the end I want to thank you because…

— Christina Aguilera

I really think that people must understand that what you really think and feel and believe is what you're going to create…

— Drunvalo Melchizedek

For me, filmmaking is not about making statements but about exposing human behavior so people are eager enough to start thinking on…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man…

— Henry Ward Beecher

We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of…

— John Legend

With Hairspray, we had a great experience. I always think of the last time I saw Divine: He was in the last…

— John Waters

But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned,…

— Erykah Badu

... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but…

— John Cassian

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning...

— Ari Fleischer

I think the best beauty trick is to take good care of your skin. Wash your face at night, wear sunscreen, and…

— Sophia Bush

I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor…

— Robert Downey, Jr

I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.

— Leon Panetta

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

— Samuel Johnson

I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.

— Demetri Martin

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Try a rocket launcher. Think maybe you could manage to hit me with that?

— Karen Marie Moning

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

— Ehud Olmert

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

— Jeff Flake

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.

— Jon Stewart

When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula…

— Suzanne Selfors

I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.

— Franklin Raines

I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion.

— Devon Aoki

I do love the work that I make and I am also sure that it's not for everyone, but I'm not thinking…

— Julio Torres