Quotes about thinking
thinking years people
I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years. C. S. Lewis
thinking heaven earth
I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.
thinking different body
Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.
thinking giving needs
When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.
thinking want want-u
I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.
thinking earth screwtape-letters
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
thinking views sanity
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?
thinking people want
We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
thinking achievement world
The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?
thinking people modern
Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.
thinking world dear
It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller
thinking harder
The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.
thinking giving want
Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
thinking christ knows
We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.
thinking people want
I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be. Cecil Taylor
thinking color trying
I think I'm plain. I'm normal. I'm plain. I try not to stand out. I don't wear colors. Cathy Moriarty
thinking people cheeseburger
A lot of people think I'm snotty. So what? They never asked me out when I was serving cheeseburgers.
thinking if-there-is-a-god red
If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible. Cecil Rhodes
thinking if-there-is-a-god race
I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race...If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...
thinking outcomes would-be
How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and collide and you think there's no reason or rhyme to it? If there wasn't any reason for it all, what would be the point? Why do you think anything happens at all? There is an outcome, repercussions and occurrences to everybody you meet and everything you say. Cecelia Ahern
thinking sides realizing
Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.
thinking giving littles
I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.
thinking order faces
I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.
thinking boston cry
I can’t even think about what life “could have been” like in Boston, without crying. It’s like deja-vu, I don’t think me and Boston were ever meant to be.
thinking wish might
well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going
thinking people anything-can-happen
I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people. I’m not easily surprised by things either. I think it’s because I expect that anything can happen
thinking everything-happens-for-a-reason trying
I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.
thinking
I think I wished for you all of my life.
thinking talking ideas
Next caller. Betty, you're on the air. What's your question ?" "Hi, Kitty. I just wanted to know, are you going out with that Cormac guy from last month?" My jaw dropped. "What?" "Are you going out with that Cormac guy?" "We are talking about the same Cormac who tried to kill me on the air, yes? the guy who hunts werewolves for a living ?" "Uh-huh." "And you want to know if I'm dating him ? Why on earth do you think that's a good idea? Carrie Vaughn
thinking radio firsts
To be a DJ was to be God. To be a DJ at an alternative public radio station ? That was being God with a mission. It was thinking you were the first person to discover The Clash and you had to spread the word.
thinking ideas judging
I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself. Carrie Brownstein
thinking self ideas
The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over your own ability to deny yourself food - that to me is a very profound and sad methodology and indicator of how powerless a lot of people feel in this world. That they will turn that onto themselves until they are physically smaller. I think it's affected my worldview a lot - just being sensitive and empathetic towards the ways people want to be small. I don't wish smallness for anyone.
thinking self people
It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've transformed into these different people. We like to think that. I feel in some ways that I am still so much my younger self. There are ways that I'm different: I feel like I'm wiser and kinder. But I think a lot of the impulses are still the same. I learned that.