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Thinking Quotes (page 277)

I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my advantage, because like if you can believe in something great, I feel like you can achieve something great. Katy Perry
My father hired you to protect me," Ahmed said, "not to go off chasing men." Grandma leaned forward, keeping her eye on the Taurus. "We think this guy killed Fred." "Who's Fred?" "My uncle," I told him. "He's married to Mabel." "Ah so you're avenging a murder in the family. This is a good thing. Janet Evanovich
It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend. Then one day you wake up and realize most of the world you're in is built on someone's make-believe. Virginia C. Andrews
Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you. Sidney Poitier
Cormac McCarthy quote: "I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he..."
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am. Cormac McCarthy
Mary Renault quote: "A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet..."
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it. Mary Renault
James Allen quote: "He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but..."
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass. James Allen
Jane Austen quote: "You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past..."
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. Jane Austen
One foggy night I was walking the dogs down the lane and heard the geese, very close overhead, calling, calling, their marvellous strange cry, as they flew by. I think that is what our own best prayer must sound like when we send it up to heaven. Madeleine L'Engle
I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Annie Dillard
The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique. Betty Friedan
Rafael Sabatini quote: "Do you know, Andr, I sometimes think that you have no heart.'..."
Do you know, Andr, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence. Rafael Sabatini
I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die. Portia de Rossi
I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Before you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the war. I don't think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached people drop out of my mind. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-set that looks first to what man can do, not what God can... John Piper
Iain Banks quote: "I just think people overvalue argument because they like to..."
I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk. Iain Banks

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