Thinking famous quotes

Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
-- A Fine Frenzy

#Goodbye #Dream #Thinking

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
-- A. A. Allen

#Thinking #Firsts #Christ

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
-- A. A. Gill

#School #Thinking #Interesting

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
-- A. A. Gill

#Thinking #America #People

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
-- A. A. Gill

#Thinking #Laughing #Television

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
-- A. A. Milne

#Inspirational #Believe #Thinking

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
-- A. A. Milne

#Inspirational #Thinking #Grieving

Think it over, think it under.
-- A. A. Milne

#Thinking

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
-- A. A. Milne

#Thinking #Bears #Robins

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
-- A. A. Milne

#Happiness #Happy #Thinking

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
-- A. A. Milne

#Happiness #Integrity #Thinking

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
-- A. B. Simpson

#Thinking #Expectations #Limits

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
-- A. B. Simpson

#Thinking #Satan #Moments

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
-- A. B. Yehoshua

#Thinking #Losing #Claims

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Past #Thinking #Use

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Thinking #People #Goal

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Thinking #Grace #Special

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
-- A. C. Benson

#Sympathy #Thinking #Views

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
-- A. C. Benson

#Life #Writing #Thinking

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
-- A. C. Cuza

#Thinking #Two #Feelings

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
-- A. E. Housman

#Life #Men #Thinking

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.
-- A. E. Housman

#Art #Thinking #Poetry

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
-- A. E. Housman

#Sarcastic #Writing #Thinking

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts
-- A. E. Housman

#Heart #Men #Thinking

To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.
-- A. E. Housman

#Thinking #Brain #Aptitude

I met with Martha and Sharon to see if there are any opportunities in syndication. My vision says her customers and fans are still loyal to her. I don't think the Martha Stewart brand loyalty has changed.
-- A. J. Burnett

#Loyalty #Opportunity #Thinking

I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
-- A. J. McLean

#Heart #Cutting #Thinking

Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
-- A. J. McLean

#Gay #Men #Thinking

Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.
-- A. J. McLean

#Thinking #People #Worry

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
-- A. J. McLean

#Girl #Thinking #One Day

There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.
-- A. J. Muste

#Thinking #Evil #Giving

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
-- A. J. Muste

#War #Thinking #Lessons

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
-- A. L. Rowse

#Thinking #Essence #History

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Thinking #Modern Life #Tests

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Thinking #People #Regimes

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Thinking #Church #Loyal

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Father #Thinking #Catholic

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Writing #Thinking #People

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Thinking #Might #Deceiving

It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Thinking #Opposites #History

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
-- A. P. Herbert

#Thinking #Looks #Sausage

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
-- A. Philip Randolph

#Eye #Thinking #Dollars

The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.
-- A. R. Bernard

#Thinking #Quality #Determine

I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.
-- A. R. Gurney

#Country #Thinking #Hands

If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.
-- A. R. Rahman

#Thinking #Make You Think #Music Is

After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
-- A. R. Rahman

#Thinking #Artist #Bridges

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.
-- A. R. Rahman

#Music #Thinking #Way

No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
-- A. Ray Olpin

#Learning #Thinking #Years

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
-- A. S. Byatt

#Powerful #Thinking #Names

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
-- A. S. Byatt

#Real #Thinking #Colour

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
-- A. Scott Berg

#Thinking #Interesting #Biographies

President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., a modern prophet, said over and over again that the Lord would never let one of his Saints who had been faithful in the payment of tithes and offerings go without the necessities of life” (Marion G. Romney, “The Blessings of an Honest Tithe,” New Era, Jan.-Feb. 1982, 45). Members who faithfully pay tithing are promised spiritual blessings as well. “I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith
-- A. Theodore Tuttle

#Spiritual #Blessing #Thinking

I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle

#Thinking #Church #Littles

Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.
-- A. V. Dicey

#Writing #Thinking #Insulting

There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
-- A. Whitney Brown

#Mean #Thinking #People

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
-- A. Whitney Brown

#Thinking #Long #Water

I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.
-- A. Whitney Brown

#Creativity #Mean #Thinking

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
-- A.C. Grayling

#Life #Thinking #Long

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
-- A.J. Ayer

#Believe #Thinking #Answers

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.
-- A.J. Ayer

#Thinking #Atheism #Facts

We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Thinking #Skins #Bags

I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.
-- A.M. Homes

#Crazy #Book #Thinking

I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.
-- A.M. Homes

#Real #Emotional #Thinking

A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.
-- A.M. Homes

#Thinking #Talking #People

I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism - the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost - no one questions it.
-- A.M. Homes

#Husband #Father #Thinking

But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.
-- A.S. King

#Thinking #People #Alcohol

Dude, what matters is if you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.
-- A.S. King

#Caring #Thinking #What Matters

Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.
-- A.S.A. Harrison

#Thinking #People #Personality

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
-- Aaliyah

#Congratulations #Successful #Thinking

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
-- Aaliyah

#Sacrifice #Thinking #Needs

You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.
-- Aaliyah

#Business #Blessed #Thinking

Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.
-- Aaliyah

#Real #Thinking #Air

If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.
-- Aaliyah

#Crazy #Thinking #Drive Me Crazy

I enjoy thelove I receive from my fans and my audience. But I think I know what is realfor me and what is not.
-- Aamir Khan

#Thinking #Fans #Enjoy

Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.
-- Aaron Belz

#Fall #Thinking #Hair

I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.
-- Aaron Boone

#Home #Thinking #Play

When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.
-- Aaron Carter

#Thinking

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
-- Aaron Copland

#Music #Thinking #Listening

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Men #Thinking #Vices

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Thinking #Symbolism #Important

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Mean #Thinking #Problem

The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Caring #Thinking #People

I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Thinking #Historical #Violence

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Thinking #Years #People

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Thinking #Trying #Weakness

I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Thinking #America #Factions

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Thinking #Actors #Want

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
-- Aaron Huey

#Real #Thinking #Understanding

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.
-- Aaron Huey

#Thinking #Mouths #Want

My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.
-- Aaron Koblin

#Mom #Technology #Thinking

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
-- Aaron Levie

#Thinking #Sight #People

There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
-- Aaron Levie

#Pride #Thinking #Organization

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
-- Aaron Levie

#Thinking #Focus #Microsoft

If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
-- Aaron Levie

#Thinking #Odds #People

I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
-- Aaron Levie

#Thinking #Would Be #Kind

All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
-- Aaron Levie

#Thinking #Ipads #Iphone

I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
-- Aaron Levie

#Thinking #People #Important

I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.
-- Aaron McGruder

#Real #Thinking #White

You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
-- Aaron McGruder

#Summer #Thinking #People

Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.
-- Aaron McGruder

#Believe #Thinking #Trying