Thoughtful famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.
-- Al Gore -
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
-- Alice Waters -
Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.
-- Amy Dickinson -
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
-- Andre Gide -
Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
-- Ann Landers -
One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.
-- Asa Gray -
The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!
-- Ashton Kutcher -
...the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it...
-- Augustus William Hare -
Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.
-- Barack Obama -
The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way.
-- Barbara Park -
I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.
-- Barry Hannah -
Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.
-- Bill Mollison -
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system
-- Bill Mollison -
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.
-- Blaise Pascal -
It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.
-- Bob Ehrlich -
Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.
-- Bob Ehrlich -
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
-- Bono -
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
-- Bram Stoker -
AND THEN SOME... these three little words are the secret to success. People that follow this are thoughtful of others; considerate and kind...and then some. They are good friends and neighbors...and then some. I am thankful for people like this, for they make the world a better place. Their spirit of service is summed up in these three little words...AND THEN SOME.
-- Carl Holmes -
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
-- Carl Jung -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-- Carl Jung -
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
-- Carl Jung -
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
-- Carl Jung -
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
-- Carl Jung -
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
-- Carl Jung -
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
-- Carl Jung -
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
-- Carl Jung -
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
-- Carl Jung -
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-- Carl Jung -
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
-- Carl Jung -
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
-- Carl Jung -
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
-- Carl Jung -
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
-- Carl Jung -
We shouldn't knee jerk anything. The Iraqi government a few years back, when they had a chance to sign an agreement that would keep some of our presence there, refused to do it. So we've got to be very careful and thoughtful before we do anything.
-- Carl Levin -
In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.
-- Caroline Paul -
We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.
-- Carson Kressley -
I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.
-- Casey Stoner -
I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?
-- Charlaine Harris -
America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.
-- Charles A. Reich -
The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person was who said this was okay. After spending all that money on a bachelorette weekend, a shower, and often a flight across the country, they expect you to go to Williams Sonoma or Pottery Barn and do research? Then they send you a thank-you note applauding you for such a thoughtful gift. They're the one who picked it out!
-- Chelsea Handler -
Our real calling to be a compassionate Christian came when we stepped out of the waters of baptism… We don’t need a bishop’s assignment to be kind. We don’t need to sign up to be thoughtful. We don’t need to be sustained by our wards to be sensitive.
-- Chieko N. Okazaki -
You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone's movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan. When you're starting out, you're willing to do anything.
-- Chris Pratt -
So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.
-- Clay Shirky -
Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.
-- D. Elton Trueblood -
Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
-- Dallas Willard -
The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That we live in a world were women actually expect you to think thoughtful thoughts, and have real emotions, which we don't have. Having to try to live up to the imaginary ideal that women have of what men are, instead of just being what you are, which is just a pathetic creature, but still.
-- Dave Barry -
Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.
-- Dave Calhoun -
Set realistic goals short and long term. 2. Plan an orderly and thorough routine to train the entire body. 3. Make a commitment to stick to your routine for four to six weeks to realize the changes and benefits, develop perseverance and create a habit. 4. Establish enthusiasm for your training, the driving force to perform successfully. 5. Ease into an appropriate training program with a wholesome, thoughtful nutritional plan: proper foods, amounts and order of consumption. 6. Be confident from the beginning that the application of these sound principles will produce the desired results.
-- Dave Draper -
Looking back on the event, I find myself thinking there are three approaches to journalism represented here. One is the "cool" approach of traditional journalism, including network broadcasting in which NPR is no exception. One is the "hot" approach of talk radio, which has since expanded to TV sports networks and now Fox TV. The third is the engaged approach of weblogging.
-- David "Doc" Searls -
Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know I’m in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.
-- David Anthony Durham -
Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you do so many thoughtful things on impulse, you will develop a lively and interesting personality- gracious, friendly, and likeable.
-- David Dunn -
Zakath's face grew thoughtful. "You know something, Garion?" he said. "Man thinks he owns the world, but we share it with all sorts of creatures who are indifferent to our overlordship. They have their own societies, and I supposed even their own cultures. They don't even pay attention to us, do you?" "Only when we inconvenience them...It teaches us humility," Garion agreed.
-- David Eddings -
We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.
-- David J. C. MacKay -
Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but all will gain from this thoughtful, well-written, provocative volume. I highly recommend it.
-- David J. Skorton -
Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.
-- David Quammen -
I thought Obama was brilliant. He's so informed. He's circumspect. He's articulate. He's thoughtful. Well, I think in my lifetime, there's never been anything like it.
-- David Shuster -
Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.
-- David Walker -
Clear, crisp, and compelling. . . . Mitzvah Girls is a thoughtful look at the world of Jewish girls who grow up in 21st-century America, but don't really.
-- David Wolpe -
A creative, thoughtful, and accomplished people such as the Jewish people should be known by what they have done and not by what has been done to them.
-- Deborah Lipstadt -
As a divorced parent, working with Dr.Walfish has been a gift. Due to her thoughtful, sensitive and highly educated guidance, I have become a far more aware parent. For over five years, I have applied her practical and customized suggestions, and––wow––it has allowed my amazing daughter and me to grow together.
-- Deborah Raffin -
Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.
-- Doris Day -
the more thoughtful you are of others, the more thoughtful they will be of you. The more you respect them, the more you will win their respect.
-- Dorothy Sarnoff -
If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.
-- Douglas Conant -
The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of the printed text orients one to a world of order, meaning, and the possibility of knowing truth.
-- Douglas Groothuis -
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
-- Duke Ellington -
When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.
-- Earl Nightingale -
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.
-- Elihu Root -
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
-- Elizabeth I -
The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns into a terrible fear that I will have no friends, I will be alone in this world and in my life. I will eventually be so crazy from this black wave, which seems to be taking over my head with increasing frequency, that one day I will just kill myself, not for any great, thoughtful existential reasons, but because I need immediate relief.
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel -
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.
-- Emily Saliers -
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.
-- Emmylou Harris -
By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.
-- Ernest Vincent Wright -
The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.
-- Ethan Zuckerman -
Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.
-- Faye Wattleton -
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Here, I stole it for you. Why don’t you tell me what it’s for.†“Aw, Sophronia, how thoughtful. You brought me a present!
-- Gail Carriger -
I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
-- Gary Lineker -
She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.
-- Gary Paulsen -
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
