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Thinking Quotes by Mary Oliver
- I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with…
- When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms,…
- Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think…
- I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown…
- It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that…
- I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
- I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as…
- I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think…
- GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and…
- I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and…
- from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only…
- Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you. Once a friend…
- The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full…
- When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think,…
- When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And…
- Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.
- I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read…
- Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and…
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- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I… — J. J. Abrams
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams