Quotes and Sayings About Thinking
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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 -
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
-- A. A. Allen -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
-- A. A. Milne -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
-- A. E. Housman -
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 -
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
-- A. E. Housman -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
