Top 100 Think Quotes
#1. I think we're in a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with global warming and climate change, and we don't have the solution using any of the separated structures that are attempting to solve these issues, whether it be the United Nations, or the global corporations.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#2. I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.
Bill Ackman
#3. I used to look at gay men and think, 'I'm not like that, I don't want to be like that, that's not me.'
Ricky Martin
#4. But dying was no drama. Dying was cold and hard and painful, and dull. It went on too long. I was exhausted and growing bored with it. Now I had too much time to think about whether I was going to die from the tide
Tracy Chevalier
#5. I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems. The essential thing is liking what you're doing.
Malcolm Forbes
#6. In every career, you are balancing or negotiating tricky waters. But, I think that's been something nice that comedy has been able to give me a little bit more. I have the ability to laugh at myself and hopefully not take all of this whole world too seriously.
Anna Faris
#7. I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
Will Durant
#8. The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.
John Updike
#9. I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
Tom Bissell
#10. I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Andy Warhol
#11. There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.
Regina Brett
#12. I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.
Haruki Murakami
#13. In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.
Dennis Quaid
#14. To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
Donna Tartt
#15. I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.
Ritchie Blackmore
#16. That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.
Marilyn Manson
#17. I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.
Jello Biafra
#18. I think of basset hounds whenever I turn on my computer because I have photos of them. And if I'm lucky, and I see one on the street, I know it's going to be a good day. They really are like a four-leaf clover.
Julie Klausner
#19. I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.
Nia Long
#20. The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
Ian McDiarmid
#21. We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#22. I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be useful, especially in my personal life, as an emotional counterweight to all that abstraction.
Eleanor Catton
#23. I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.
Anna Held
#24. I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.
Anne Waldman
#25. And you look like a protagonist." She was talking as fast as she could think. "You look like the person who wins in the end. You're so pretty, and so good. You have magic eyes," she whispered. "And you make me feel like a cannibal.
Rainbow Rowell
#26. I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.
Bruce Feirstein
#27. I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
Paul Auster
#28. If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.
Pat Benatar
#29. I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to one particular spot in the brain.
Gerald Fischbach
#30. These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course of affairs or that they are making progress towards such an ideal. I think [democracy] is a false ideal.
Walter Lippmann
#31. I think if you've never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant.
Angelina Jolie
#32. I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up
Marc Andreessen
#33. I don't think I have ever worn more outfits over the course of four days than I did Emmy weekend. You barely sleep. You don't eat.
Allison Tolman
#34. I don't think each of us receives one harvest only--an after-death sort of payment for services rendered. I think we all get a lifetime full of little harvests--those small miracles that stand out from the rest of life, when we are one with nature, each other, and ourselves.
Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard
#35. Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.
Doris "Granny D" Haddock
#36. It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.
James E. Faust
#37. I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.
Graham Nash
#38. I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students.
Jim Edgar
#39. I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.
Joseph Bruchac
#40. What is my strength? Do I even have a strength? Maybe I have too many strengths, and that's why I can't think of just one.
Wendy Mass
#41. I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama.
Martin Freeman
#42. There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.
Michael Sandel
#43. I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.
Tod Goldberg
#44. She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think.
Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.
Cormac McCarthy
#45. I'm constantly failing, but not upset about it. I think there's a great deal to learn from that.
Jared Leto
#46. I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.
James Gosling
#47. I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank.
Anna Eshoo
#48. I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.
Cecily McMillan
#49. I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That's what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one.
Kevin Costner
#50. I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role.
Deborah Cox
#51. Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
Jackie DeShannon
#52. Certainly in the arts, in all genres, I think that men should step away. I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for 50 to 100 years.
Eileen Myles
#53. Women bond differently, and I don't think men understand that.
Julie Garwood
#55. People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
Carey Mulligan
#56. This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.
Mahbod Seraji
#57. Don't cry for me. When you think of me, be happy.
Kim Holden
#58. I've always thought of myself as a role model even before being a 'celebrity.' I've always been doing charity work and volunteering in the community since I was 8, so when you do that, I think you just assume that role when you put yourself out there.
Eva Longoria
#59. I think that the transformative nature of love is why we are so drawn to it.
Michael Franti
#60. But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
Mike Leigh
#61. I think whenever there's potential for beauty, beauty can be found. And everything has potential for beauty.
Kamand Kojouri
#62. I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.
Hillary Clinton
#63. I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
Alice Sebold
#64. One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#65. I'm a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion, and I love vintage.
Emma Watson
#66. I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'
Charlyne Yi
#67. I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.
Ian Holm
#68. People can say crap. They can think whatever they want, but you control how you feel about it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#69. The funny thing about having any kind of moustache or beard is it grows on you - in two ways. I mean, it grows on you. It also becomes part of your identity. I've had it for 40 years. I don't think I would recognize the person in the mirror without it.
John W. Boyer
#70. Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up a tin cup, you will receive only that quantity. If you hold up a bowl, that will be filled. What kind of receptacle are you holding up to Divine Abundance?
Paramahansa Yogananda
#71. If you think I'm handsome, there's obviously nothing wrong with your vision.
Lisa Scottoline
#72. I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.
Ludacris
#73. I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.
Paul Ryan
#74. Nice is good. It doesn't sound exciting, but think about it. I think Mr. Perfect would be kind to kids and animals, help old ladies across the street, not insult you when your opinion is different from his. Being nice is so important it's close to being number one.
Linda Howard
#75. I think London, New York, Paris, Milan, any big city has its own fashion. I don't know why they make such a big thing of Paris. I think maybe it comes from French New Wave films portraying the French girl as very feminine.
Josephine De La Baume
#76. Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
Thomas Arnold
#77. I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
Flip Wilson
#78. Were you terrified, Murgatroyd?" Murgatroyd nodded eagerly. "There you go, girl: You're a terrorist. You make me twitchy, and under Article Forty-One of the 2000 Terrorism Bill, that's all I need. Time for some reasonable force, I think.
China Mieville
#79. I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our superiority complex and forcing us to reconsider our relationship to animals.
Jonathan Balcombe
#80. And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
Gordon Parks
#81. I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.
Arlen Specter
#82. Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.
Charles Spurgeon
#83. I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.
Richard Avedon
#84. I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.
Andrew Luck
#85. I think there comes a time when you realize that you need God in your life, God's Word, and the spiritual guidance that only He can give.
Sylvester Stallone
#87. It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
Kate Christensen
#88. If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.
Usain Bolt
#89. If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.
Michel De Montaigne
#90. I think we need to say, 'Okay, Jesus, give us your eyes. Give us childlike faith. Give us the eyes of faith so that we can begin to see the way Christ does and get used to looking for God's glory in each other.
Kevin Paterson
#92. Friendship is higher than love. Sometimes, it's less glamorous, or less passionate, but it's deeper and kind of wiser, I think.
Michka Assayas
#93. I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.
Al Michaels
#94. [In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.
Ross Perot
#95. I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same.
Solange Knowles
#96. We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#97. The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
Idris Elba
#98. Self-discover is not as someone would have us think, a heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you progress towards enlightenment, you become funny.
Frederick Lenz
#99. Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#100. It is absurd to think that a man can believe in Christ, with his heart, and it not have a radical affect on the rest of his life.
Paul Washer
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