Convergent Thinking Quotes

#1. I am always and at once on the defensive, for example, when people speak of races and nations as if they were personalities and had souls and destinies and such like.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution of any real, complex biochemical system either did occur or even might have occurred.

Michael Behe

#3. The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. Of course I didn't want to involve myself in devastating crimes I hadn't done - especially under the present circumstances, where the U.S. government was jumping on every Muslim and trying to pin any crime on him.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#5. Well what? said Peter. He knew but had learned that if there was one advantage to the male sex it was that your obtuseness would never be underestimated; if you pretend you don't know what the problem is, half the time it just goes away.

Brian McGreevy

#6. What does Austin need to move that large car? Powers!

Steve Jolly

#7. You need to get out of the nest if you ever want to fly.

Todd Stocker

#8. Unlucky people are stuck in routines. When they see something new, they want no part of it. Lucky people always want something new. They're prepared to take risks and relaxed enough to see the opportunities in the first place.

Richard Wiseman

#9. I knew I had to break up with Ann Rosenberg after she chose a teal dress for the prom. I had never heard of teal. Also, I was gay.

Brian Selznick

#10. The circus goes from town to town, so why run away to join it? It should be, I've decided to wait for the circus to come.

Dana Gould

#11. And I lie down on your carpet so long that you think I will stay forever but I get up and I see the indentation in the carpet and I get jealous and say, "I am no longer needed here.

Sam Pink

#12. I'm not going to hurt you, Naomi. I'm not going to cheat on you, or lie to you, or leave you. I'm not going to look at the dark parts of you and think they're ugly. I'm not running from you. I'm here, baby. I'm right here, and I'm knocking on the door. Let me in. Let me in.

Marysol James

#13. I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

Lily Tomlin

#14. In marriage, insult arises again and again; and pain has to be not only endured, but consented to; and the amount of forgiveness that it necessitates is incredible and exhausting.

Glenway Wescott