Karen Finney Quotes

We think what Americans at the end of the day want to know is, if this person [a candidate] going to go out and be a fighter for me? Does this person understand my concerns, my issues, and will this person fight for me?

Karen Finney

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• My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Thinking
  • Advice
  • Consistent

• As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • You

• Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • War

• Can you look at a flower without thinking?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Thinking
  • Flower

• I can't be impatient. It would show on the floor, and I won't compete if I'm thinking about getting the ball.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Thinking

• I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Life
  • Fighting

• I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should probably read it.'

  

  Charles Bock
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Book

• Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small.

  

  Christina Baker Kline
  • Thinking
  • Small
  • Technology

• When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

  

  Jim Messina Buffalo Springfield
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Nice

• If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

  

  Chantal Kreviazuk
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I'm always thinking, 'What next,' even while working on one play or shooting for a film.

  

  Lillete Dubey
  • Thinking

• I grew up thinking you're either a winner in the world, or you're not. I presumed I was not. I had no reason to think I would be, and my inclination is towards self-deprecation. I wish I'd known no one was judging my every move, but I'm still like this!

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• Bull riding is fun, but fighting is it.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Fun
  • Fighting

• He's fighting for the world title, so we're prepared for the best John Thompson.

  

  Liam Smith
  • World
  • Fighting

• Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans.

  

  Jim Clyburn
  • High
  • Education
  • Fighting

• Nothing is a calling card. Everything is what you do. If you do it in order to get somewhere else, you're not actually doing it. If you're thinking, 'What is the weird thing I want to make with my friends?' money and other things will come later.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Friends

• I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

  

  Jonathan Glazer
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• I'd just like to think that there's some kind of underworld where whoever's been lost at sea is there... I dunno, there probably isn't, but I'd like to believe there is.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Lost

• Pain or perspective, that's the choice.' . . . You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes, the choice is always hard. But you choose perspective - embrace your history, give it credit for the better person it can make you, scars and all - the choice gets easier every time.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Time
  • History
  • Giving

• Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Tears
  • Prove

• One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Government
  • Purpose
  • Worst

• Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Organization

• We think what Americans at the end of the day want to know is, if this person [a candidate] going to go out and be a fighter for me? Does this person understand my concerns, my issues, and will this person fight for me?

  

  Karen Finney
  • Thinking
  • Fighting
  • Issues