Thinking Quotes

• My 4-year-old son prays every night for his best friend who is the same age - our next door neighbor in Liberia, a little Liberian boy: 'Dear God, please don't let him get Ebola.' I'm proud of him for thinking about his friend and praying for him but that's not a prayer that a 4-year-old should have to consider.

  

  Kent Brantly
  • God
  • Age
  • Night

• You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

  

  James Daly
  • Job
  • Morning
  • Sunday

• Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • See

• The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Up
  • Time
  • History

• I don't think, in a country, you can have people thinking and feeling exactly the same.

  

  Jacob Zuma
  • People
  • Country
  • Feeling

• 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
  • Tears
  • Prove
  • Scorn

• I grew up thinking that I would be an ambassador secret agent. From age 14 to right before I graduated college, I was really interested in the foreign service and the United Nations. I learned to speak French, Turkish, and all these things.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Up
  • Age
  • College

• I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • People
  • Ugly
  • Fame

• I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I think are necessary, especially in prison. You can threaten people for just so long, but they can flip you off and do what they want to; but not if they have to die. I hate it, though, the thought of the death penalty is terrible, but it's completely necessary.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • People
  • Long
  • Hate

• You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Thinking
  • Running

• I think Nancy Reagan felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Time
  • She
  • Felt

• My childhood was as conventional as you could get. I think I probably created 'Arcadia' with a certain amount of wishful thinking. I would have loved to have more looseness and freedom and community.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Freedom
  • Community
  • Childhood

• I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

  

  Ang Lee
  • American
  • Space
  • Drama

• I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Down

• I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Believe
  • Should
  • Voting

• But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • People
  • Thinking

• In terms of whether my mom was influential, I think she instilled a certain way of thinking in me quite early: having a reflective mindset regarding my actions and trying to find the underlying reasons to behavior. I think that's quite helpful when you're trying to understand a character.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Mom

• When I interviewed John McCain in 2000 about whether he had taken medication for his anger, I remember thinking, 'Let's see how this is going to work.'

  

  John Dickerson
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Taken

• I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Thinking
  • Young
  • Idols

• The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the 'thinking men' but among my simple 'backward' people.

  

  Peter Abrahams
  • People
  • Men
  • Respect

• I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think: "Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me". It's a very common thing.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Reading
  • Boy
  • Boys

• I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • Party
  • Barack

• I think I learned the most from Eminem because I spent the most time with him in the studio. Going to L.A. with Dre was a learning experience, just seeing how the dude works and being up-close and personal with a dude whose music I appreciated growing up.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

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