Quotes About Thinks

#1. I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, for years to come. It will not be Vietnam; it will not let us go home and lick our wounds.

George Packer

#2. So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter the light of the truth of our being, and aided by that light to find the right path. Mary

Pope Benedict XVI

#3. True humility isn't thinking less of yourself. It's thinking of yourself exactly the way God thinks of you; not more and not less.

Praying Medic

#4. They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.

James Roday

#5. Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

Kelsey Grammer

#6. There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

Mario Batali

#7. I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.

Vincent Van Gogh

#8. Color ... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.

Charles Baudelaire

#9. President George W. Bush, in his now-rare public appearances and interviews, still refuses to acknowledge he did anything to help Iran. But it doesn't really matter what he thinks.

Richard Engel

#10. I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.

Lynn Coady

#11. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's the wounded male ego. It's as though Hollywood thinks I've got some choice in whether I like him or not. As if. I can't change who I am.

Kirsty Eagar

#12. He hasn't said whether he remembers the episode itself - or, if he doesn't, whether that is because it never happened or because it happened too often to keep track. More important, he hasn't said what he thinks about it all from the perspective of 2003.

Michael Kinsley

#13. Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.

Del Shannon

#14. He's British," she replied in a whisper. "He thinks he's perfect.

Donna Grant

#15. He thinks men like me weak. He thinks me dumb, feeble, subhuman. I was not raised in palaces. I did not ride horses through meadows and eat meals of hummingbird tongues. I was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love. He is wrong. None of them will survive.

Pierce Brown

#16. Do you stick with the position you've mastered? Or do you push yourself to master the position that seems out of reach? Do you listen to what everyone else thinks is best for you? Or do you listen to your own voice? Do you settle? Or do you dream?

Reggie Love

#17. Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Austin O'Malley

#18. The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.

Harry S. Truman

#19. Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead
too afraid to live, only waiting, never taking a risk
I am as good as dead already.

Joe Meno

#20. The only thing crueler than a cage so
small that a bird can't fly is a cage so
large that a bird thinks it can fly.

Caroline Kepnes

#21. there's going to come a time when we won't speak for days on end." "There won't." "There will. Every parent thinks it will never happen to them, but it happens to everyone.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#22. Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes."
"That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly.
"Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.

Eoin Colfer

#23. Intuition is not clairvoyance. It's not guesswork either. Intuition is executive summary, that 90 percent of the higher brain that functions subconsciously - but no less rigorously - than the self-aware subroutine that thinks of itself as the person.

Peter Watts

#24. She thinks you're stalking me."
"Why the hell would I do that? I see too much of your ugly mug as it is.

Margaret Watson

#25. We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Oscar Wilde

#26. Just when he thinks he's adjusting to anxiety as a constant condition, Jake feels several internal organs shrinking.

Peter Blauner

#27. A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance.

David Wilkerson

#28. A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

Baruch Spinoza

#29. I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

Sheryl Sandberg

#30. I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be one.

Paz De La Huerta

#31. Every kid thinks about the Heisman Trophy and dreams about it, but you never think it could happen to you.

Carson Palmer

#32. God, I hate my voice! Everyone thinks I'm a female, probably ... I am actually a male!

Ray Toro

#33. I'm not a person who thinks they can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile I should be able to have more than my fair share.

George Carlin

#34. Having my daughter in the backseat with her best friend, singing "Let It Go," the Frozen song, at the top of her lungs, and just watching her sing when she thinks no one is watching. That, to me, is pure love.

John Feldmann

#35. So often one thinks that individuals and situations cannot be so extraordinary as they seem from outside: only to find that the truth is a thousand times odder.

Anthony Powell

#36. 92. Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping - its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.

Maggie Nelson

#37. If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.

Janet Reno

#38. Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.

Oliver Goldsmith

#39. An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Idries Shah

#40. Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.

Margaret Atwood

#41. When the brain thinks positively, the hands work positively, the legs run positively and the individual becomes a positive wholesome entity.

Israelmore Ayivor

#42. Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are god. A dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat and, many times, neither can I.

Charles Bukowski

#43. Nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously.

Susan Sontag

#44. No young man ever thinks he shall die.

William Hazlitt

#45. There is none so troubled as one who thinks himself perfectly sane.

Lois Greiman

#46. Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.

Marilyn Manson

#47. But sometimes it ain't the strongest wins. And especially when the stronger thinks, because it's stronger, that it ain't got to try to fight.

China Mieville

#48. In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a press is true because it is revolutionary; it will be revolutionary only if it is true, and never otherwise.

Albert Camus

#49. When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.

Gary Lineker

#50. Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

Michael Leunig

#51. And then Julia's thinking about the internet and blogging; how everyone with a keyboard thinks they can just bang out articles no problem, never mind research or quality control.

Claire Hennessy

#52. I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films.

Rick Moody

#53. What the world thinks of me is none of my business.

Mary Kay Ash

#54. Well, whatever one thinks of the Roman Church, it is a worthy and powerful foe. I could accept that sort of conversion with grace. But I shall be very disappointed indeed if we lose him to the Presbyterians.

Donna Tartt

#55. The fabric of space/time is much like one of the elaborate Vatican tapestries, thinks Nemes, and she who begins pulling on loose threads does so at the peril of watching the whole tapestry ravel.

Dan Simmons

#56. Can you believe him? Does he think if he just dangle his boy bits at you like a cat toy you'll go scampering after him?"
"Of course he thinks that," said Karou. "This is his idea of a romantic gesture.

Laini Taylor

#57. A good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.

Garrison Keillor

#58. When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.

Hulk Hogan

#59. Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.

Rene Daumal

#60. I love how everyone thinks it's so quaint and childlike of me to expect a modicum of privacy around here.
-Remy "Thirteen" Hadley

House

#61. I want him so badly it hurts. But I want all of him. Not just the sex. I want his smiles and his teasing, his smouldering looks. His sad eyes when he thinks nobody's watching. Most of all, I want his heart.

L. H. Cosway

#62. A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

Mark Twain

#63. Maybe now he thinks I'm stupid, or strange. Maybe it was worth it. I

Veronica Roth

#64. Some Christians believe the harder that one thinks, the colder faith will grow. Augustine grew more brilliant as he grew more pious, more creative as he became more orthodox. His period of heresy was imitative, but his traditional Christianity took mental risks.

John Mark Reynolds

#65. What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right ... the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.

Peter Drucker

#66. A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.

Fran Lebowitz

#67. Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.

V.C. Andrews

#68. Gerdanlouk, he thinks. An evocative Turkish word, with Arabic roots. It means jewelry, but only jewelry adorning a woman between her lower neck and the top of her breasts. Gerdanlouk. He looks away.

Jenny White

#69. We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#70. I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting ... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting.

Andy Warhol

#71. She thinks, I want an orange soda. And I want vodka to mix into the orange soda. And while we're at it, I'd also like to stop being able to see how people are going to bite it. Oh, and a pony. I definitely want a goddamn pony.

Chuck Wendig

#72. Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue,
small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class
thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

Confucius

#73. If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.

Cory Doctorow

#74. Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as good and who enjoys them as beautiful. For all that which is, down to the humblest form of existence, exhibits the inseparable privileges of being, which are truth, goodness, and beauty.

Etienne Gilson

#75. Hardly anyone today thinks about sex. We joke about it, dream about it, watch movies about it, listen to music about it, lust about it. But we don't ever really think about it.

Jason Evert

#76. Everyone thinks his sack heaviest.

George Herbert

#77. Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

Shirley Jackson

#78. It doesn't matter if everyone thinks something is not worthy enough, it doesn't matter what the statistics say, it doesn't matter when the whole world is against something you do, as long as it keeps you happy.

Zainab T. Khan

#79. Everybody thinks they deserve something.

Wayne Rogers

#80. Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache ... whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

George Orwell

#81. When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Charles De Gaulle

#82. No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

Andrew Young

#83. An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#84. Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed.

Lincoln Child

#85. A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Jean De La Bruyere

#86. I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#87. Somehow I feel that a person who thinks he has discovered the absolute truth will not be someone I know.

Manu Joseph

#88. Ah?" he said, vaguely. "No, I dinna think so. Still," he said with a smile, pulling his attention suddenly back to her, "I wouldna be likely to. A young burke of sixteen's too taken up wi' his own grand self to pay much heed to what he thinks are naught but a rabble of snot-nosed bairns.

Diana Gabaldon

#89. Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

Joseph Conrad

#90. What's a feminist?" Julie asked.
"Someone who thinks women are fish," Barton replied. He was smiling at Lily. "And that men are bicycles, which makes us basically useless to anyone of the fish persuasion. But it does categorize us as creatures who exist solely for the purpose of being ridden.

Dianne Dixon

#91. A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

John Churton Collins

#92. When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

Joseph P. Farrell

#93. You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate ... On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal."
"I think that's some kind of rule for the universe.

John Barnes

#94. Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box.

Toba Beta

#95. If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.

Robert Jordan

#96. My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.

Ellen Barkin

#97. If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

Theodor Herzl

#98. The editor self thinks only of saving the reader time and shaping a powerful emotional experience.

Mary Karr

#99. Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

Marcia Gay Harden

#100. Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.