Quotes and Sayings About Thought Provoking
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
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The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.
-- Alberto ManguelSource : Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.9, Vintage Canada
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The Playtex Secrets survey truly uncovered some thought-provoking and provocative secrets of real American housewives. In fact, many of the findings would make great fodder for a storyline on the show!
-- Alfre Woodard -
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter -
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What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going to see the larger destabilization of the Middle East, the rise of extremism, and we're going to wonder... Why didn't we at least try to force a political solution - at an acceptable cost to us, because no one is saying we should send in ground troops - and if we did it would be worse than doing nothing... If we do not act, we are going to look back and wonder why we didn't.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter -
I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.
-- Arjun Rampal -
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
-- Arnold BennettSource : Arnold Bennett (2013). “How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc
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It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
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Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
-- Arthur KoestlerSource : Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”
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There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.
-- Billie Piper -
Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle transcends time and place. The ultimate revelation here: for many women, if not most, 2011 is no different than 1911, but triumph is nonetheless possible.
-- Binnie Kirshenbaum -
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Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level
-- Brad Bird -
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
-- Bruce Lee -
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
-- C. S. Lewis -
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
-- Charles Bukowski -
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To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
-- Charles Bukowski -
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
-- Charles Dickens -
I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
-- Charlie Kaufman -
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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.
-- Chinua Achebe -
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
-- Chinua Achebe -
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
-- Chinua Achebe -
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
-- Chinua Achebe -
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If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
-- Chinua Achebe -
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
-- Chinua Achebe