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Thinks Quotes (page 508)

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead. Tom Stoppard
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping. C. S. Lewis
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in..."
I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted. Jeanette Winterson
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful. Marie Curie
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. Charles Dickens
but why do only unimportant things?" asked milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them.think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "if you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. you just won't have the time. for there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it... Norton Juster
I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us. William Gibson
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by..."
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds? Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Hume quote: "Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call..."
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness. David Hume
She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark. Neil Gaiman
Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking. Quentin Crisp
My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that again.” “Or what?” I ask. “Or . . . or . . .” He can’t think of anything good. “Just give me a minute. Suzanne Collins
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. George Eliot
Sue Monk Kidd quote: "I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody..."
I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me. Sue Monk Kidd

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