Think Quotes - page 22

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body. (John Adams)
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody. View quote
Andrew Jackson
It is a damned poor mind indeed that can't think of at least two ways of spelling any word. View quote
Andrew Jackson
Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them. View quote
Britney Spears
I think with anybody who's doing well in the public eye or whatever, there's always gonna be a shift because people don't wanna see somebody happy all the time. And they're gonna try to take shots at people. View quote
Britney Spears
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here? View quote
John Lennon
I like to think of music as an emotional science. View quote
George Gershwin
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. View quote
Salma Hayek
A thing is important if anyone think it important. View quote
William James
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. (William James)
The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable. View quote
Parmenides
They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think. View quote
Matthew Prior
I think it's ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty. View quote
Kristen Stewart
I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving. View quote
Fred Rogers
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature. View quote
Graham Greene
You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood. View quote
Graham Greene
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. View quote
Blaise Pascal
I think everyone's hungry for the truth. View quote
Alanis Morissette
I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. (Paul Krugman)
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. View quote
George Eliot
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. View quote
Ayn Rand