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Thinks Quotes (page 443)

And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners. Howard Zinn
Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic. Carrie Fisher
It means black kitten," I said with my pulse almost even again. Ares studied me. "And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten?"They're wererats, Ares," I said. He frowned at me."They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through. Laurell K. Hamilton
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be. Frank Herbert
Memphis and I both looked at Olaf, as if he'd spoken in tongues. I think neither of us had expected anything useful from the corpse fondling. Damn. Laurell K. Hamilton
The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctor's surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they have something interesting to think about. John Mortimer
John Keats quote: "--then on the shore. Of the wide world I stand alone, and..."
--then on the shore. Of the wide world I stand alone, and think. Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. John Keats
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no..."
Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception. Jeanette Winterson
Before I fell asleep, eventually, was thinking when I was a small kid how I'd try to imagine the end of the century and what a far-off wonder that was and I'd figure out how old I'd be when the century ended, years, months, days and now look, incredible we're here - we're six years in and I realize I'm the same skinny kid, my life shadowed by his presence, won't step on cracks on the sidewalk, not as superstition but as a test, a discipline, still do it. Don DeLillo
Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?"Yes."My dear fellow, who will let you?"That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me? Ayn Rand
The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info. David Foster Wallace
Shel Silverstein quote: "If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can..."
If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough! Shel Silverstein
I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved... Ivan Turgenev
Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through faith. Savage force is faith's obedient servant. Violence on an apocalyptic scale can only be born of faith because reason, by its very nature, disarms senseless cruelty. Only faith thinks to justify it. Terry Goodkind
I sometimes think the sexual organs were put there to keep the human race humble," she said. "They've certainly kept me humble. Larry McMurtry

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