Think Quotes - page 83

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. (Margaret Atwood)
Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed. View quote
Margaret Atwood
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested. View quote
Michelle Rodriguez
Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible, and that all kinds of mutating, living machines conduct wars, are combined and trace out a plane of consistance which undermines the plane of organization of the World and the States? View quote
Gilles Deleuze
317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is, because mathematical reality is built that way. View quote
G. H. Hardy
Missionaries, whether of philosophy or of religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions of the multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other. View quote
Martin Sheen
I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it. (Nikolai Berdyaev)
My favorite process is writing, from day one. The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for me to communicate, because I think tha'ts my prime objective on this planet. View quote
Gloria Estefan
Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do. View quote
Gloria Estefan
I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly . . . he could have gone a long time ago. View quote
Gloria Estefan
I think if we study the primates, we notice that a lot of these things that we value in ourselves, such as human morality, have a connection with primate behavior. View quote
Jane Goodall
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes. View quote
Jane Goodall
I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company. View quote
Jane Goodall
The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else. View quote
Jane Goodall
My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it. View quote
Anne Rice
At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them. View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong. (Larry Sanger)
' I was reared in a pub – as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people. View quote
Brian Cowen
I think it is fair to say that 2007 represents a turning point for the Irish economy. View quote
Brian Cowen
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault. View quote
Louisa May Alcott