"Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones."

-- Natalie Clifford Barney

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Intention Quotes

“Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Galen A. Johnson, Michael B. Smith (1993). “The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting”, p.82, Northwestern University Press
“Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.”

Source : MSNBC.com Live Chat, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.
“May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.”
“The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.”

Source : "Que Sera, Sanaa!". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. September 8, 2011.
“I agree that it's important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.”
“Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane.”
“I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.”
“I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.”

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