Thinking Quotes

• I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Mother
  • Taken
  • Fighting

• Think of the majesty of that moment in this dying world's history, when Jesus Christ declared that to the Christian death was only a sleep. Outside of that small dwelling in Capernaum, a great race of men rushed and toiled as they harassed continents and seas; mighty events marshaled themselves into annals and pageants. What was inside? In one inconspicuous chamber of a now forgotten house, man's Redeemer, unobserved, martyred man's final enemy. There Immanuel subdued death forever.

  

  Charles Seymour Robinson
  • House
  • Jesus
  • Sleep

• Clearly, gay marriage is on the top of the agenda right now. It's pretty amazing, considering where stuff was at when I was in high-school, when there were no LGBT Gay-Straight Alliances or any of that stuff. Am I a huge Lady Gaga fan? No, but I think some of the stuff she does that helps LGBT kids is amazing. And it's great that that's mainstream. It's fantastic that there's a pop star who's willing to put herself out in that way.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Gay

• I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

  

  Miep Gies
  • Happens
  • Holocaust
  • Rwanda

• Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts.

  

  Minnie Pearl
  • Thinking
  • Missing
  • Would Be

• I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Motivational
  • Pressure
  • Track

• I'd missed science and what it was all about because I was too busy trying to think of other things, when I was at school. I was too busy trying to be James Dean.

  

  Dallas Campbell
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • School

• Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trouble

• Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

  

  George W. Crane
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Failures

• I think what's important is to first have your life and then do your job.

  

  Erin Davie
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Jobs

• It’s hard for everyone isn’t it? Anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. There’s this huge divide between me and Alex right now because I feel like we’re living in such different worlds, I don’t know what to talk about with him anymore. And we used to be able to talk all night. He phones once a week and I listen to what he’s been up to during the week and try to bite my tongue every time I go into another Katie story. Truth is I have nothing other to talk about but her and I know it bores people. I think I used to be interesting once upon a time.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Thinking

• I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Definitions

• Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"?

  

  Erik Naggum
  • Thinking
  • Reader
  • Courses

• The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Kind
  • Sacrifice
  • Liberty

• We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of God's presence and if Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, or agnostics become for this better men - simply better - we will be satisfied. It matters to the individual what church he belongs to. If that individual thinks and believes that this is the only way to God for her or him, this is the way God comes into their life - his life. If he does not know any other way and if he has no doubt so that he does not need to search then this is his way to salvation.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Catholic

• I think it's incumbent upon me to try to be smart and make good choices and work with good people and work my ass off when I'm working with good people and I have to let everyone have their opinion afterwards. But this is what happens. You make a movie or you're on a show and then you have this experience and everyone tells you what you did. They tell you what you did. That's allowed. That's the experience of being human and subjectivity. That's it. We can only do what we'll do, and I can only do the best I can do.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • People
  • Trying
  • Choices

• It's two seasons since I raced in Sepang and I'm looking forward to it now. It's a track where you have a little bit of everything - it's hard to ride, it's hot, there are fast and slow corners, hard braking, long straights and everybody has references from the tests. Nevertheless, we need to wait to see on Friday what the temperature and track conditions are like to understand how the tyres will work, because it's normally very slippery. I'm really enjoying racing at the moment and I want to continue like this, pushing the maximum from our side without thinking about the others.

  

  Dani Pedrosa
  • Long
  • Waiting
  • Track

• I tend to have a very analytical mind, I'm constantly thinking about how things can be better or different.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go to a point where all you have is coins and bars of gold, but I do think that we are going to have to go back to a monetary system based in gold, not based on paper.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Country
  • Giving
  • Gold

• And then I don't know why, but I felt sad. And then I started thinking about my brother. Every time I felt sad, I thought about him. Maybe deep down a part of me was always thinking about him. Sometimes, I caught myself spelling out his name. B-E-R-N-A-R-D-O. What was my brain doing, spelling out his name without my permission?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Brain
  • Brother
  • Permission

• The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Dream
  • Place
  • Impossible

• People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Darwinism

• I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Children
  • Wealth
  • Foundation

• No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Together
  • Black
  • Cities

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