Quotes about thinking
thinking people generations
If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect. John Mellencamp
thinking winning want
Americans want to win; bin Laden thinks he's winning now. John McCain
thinking long president
I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do. John McCain
thinking media america
I think [social media] is fundamentally restructuring the whole nature of information and how it's expressed in America. John McCain
thinking people waiting
Well, I don't think it is amnesty to start with. Second of all, what do you want to do with them? That is the question in response and third of all, it is a tough path to citizenship, you have to pay back tax and learn English and have to have a clear record and get to the back of the line behind to the people who have come here legally or waiting legally. So, i just reject that. John McCain
thinking giving political
I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What it is in Washington is extortion because they all ask for the money. John McCain
thinking ebola facts
I don't think we are comforted by the fact that we were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States and obviously that's not correct John McCain
thinking priorities challenges
They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges. John McCain
thinking air challenges
I think my major challenge, very frankly, is to maintain the traction, ... I've seen many campaigns here in the state of New Hampshire look good for a while, and then the air comes out of the balloon. John McCain
thinking social protect
I just think that we ought to protect the Social Security fund. John McCain
thinking hands decision
I think that decisions should rest in the hands of the states. I'm a federalist. John McCain
thinking sick becoming
I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick. John McCain
thinking pigs stills
I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. John McCain
thinking issues biden
I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength. John McCain
thinking clinton policy
I think, again, neither of these candidates [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] is blowing me away. Actually, I would like both of them to get more policy specific. John McCain
thinking numbers issues
I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side. But there are a number of members of Congress who have primaries and when those primaries are done, they may be more inclined to address the issue of comprehensive immigration reform. John McCain
thinking people supportive
I actually think if the American people understood what was going on instead of just being told tidbits by this administration, they would actually be a lot more supportive of the boots on the ground. John McCain
thinking complicated reminders
Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think. John Jeremiah Sullivan
thinking people mind
There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds. John Jay Chapman
thinking wickedness victim
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. John Jay Chapman
thinking events helping
I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine John James Audubon
thinking cookies sober
Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie. John Irving
thinking today phrases
What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today. John Irving
thinking hymns funeral
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable. John Irving
thinking awkward praying
I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany. John Irving
thinking together kind
They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another. John Irving
thinking people dumb
You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else. John Irving
thinking people busy
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people. John Irving
thinking imagination interesting
I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography. John Irving
thinking people would-be
It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans. John Irving
thinking-of-you children crazy
Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres! John Irving
thinking trying outsiders
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have. John Irving
thinking skins actors
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin. John Irving