Famous Quotes & Sayings

Debbie Ford

Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming

E. P. Thompson

I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

E. L. James

I think women love to read love stories.

E. L. James

I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed.

E. L. Konigsburg

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

E. L. Konigsburg

I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane

E. Stanley Jones

If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.

E. O. Wilson

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

E. O. Wilson

We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean air or water with fusion energy - we are kidding ourselves.

E. O. Wilson

I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.

E. O. Wilson

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

E. O. Wilson

It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.

E. O. Wilson

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

E. O. Wilson

Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.

E. O. Wilson

To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

E. O. Wilson

I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them.

E. O. Wilson

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

E. M. Forster

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

E. M. Forster

I don't know what to think until I see what I've said.

E. M. Forster

This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.

E. M. Forster

Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.

E. M. Forster

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

E. M. Forster

I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.

E. M. Forster

I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.

E. M. Forster

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

E. M. Forster

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom.

E. M. Forster

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

Drew Curtis

I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.

Drew Curtis

I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.

Drew Fuller

I have no clue what a 'hottie' is. To think of myself in those terms is absurd.

Drea De Matteo

Well, I know from some of my own experience, and many of my friends' experiences, when going through that sort of program. The whole addiction game really forces you to focus on what brings you there and accept the only way out. So once you really put this focus on getting better and figuring out what your flaws are, that's what brings you back. I think she could've been more reckless and shown up earlier, but I wasn't really available to come back.

Dree Hemingway

Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by being related to him, I had it in my head that I had to like him.

Dree Hemingway

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.