think quotes

• AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. (Susan Sontag) [people/think/sex/suicide]
• I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. (Kevin Spacey) [think]
• I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show [Star Trek: The Next Generation]. But then I like to think of myself as Rutger Hauer in real life: strikingly handsome, irresistible to women, an intergalactic enigma. (Brent Spiner) [think/think/life/women]
• You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot (Ben Stein) [think/think]
• But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole. (Jonathan Swift) [think/time/rage]
• I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. (Margaret Thatcher) [attack/think/attack/argument]
• I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it. (Henry David Thoreau) [think/thinking/more]
• I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. (Henry David Thoreau) [think/trust/more/care]
• You have to think anyway, so why not think big? (Donald Trump) [think/think]
• He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three; I attended their funerals. (Mark Twain) [think]
• I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception. (Mark Twain) [think]
• The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous. (Mark Twain) [people/think/people]
• It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. (Mark Twain) [people/think/fool]
• Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them. (Mark Twain) [think/feelings/argument/government]
• It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. (Mark Twain) [think/opinion/horse]
• Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. (Mark Twain) [opinion/think/god]
• My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. (Mark Twain) [mother/think]
• Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. (Mark Twain) [think/think]
• Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. (Gore Vidal) [think/organism/being/virus]
• No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed. (Max Weber) [think/age/time/result]
• If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. (Simone Weil) [suffering/misfortune/think/day]
• Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. (Simone Weil) [time/think/sin/envy]
• Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches (Simone Weil) [wounds/wisdom/think/being]
• But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. (Alfred North Whitehead) [/think]
• We think in generalities, but we live in detail. (Alfred North Whitehead) [think]
• Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. (Benjamin Lee Whorf) [language/think/think]
• I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. (Oscar Wilde) [think/god/ability]
• When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is. (Oscar Wilde) [think/money/thing/life]
• Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. (Oscar Wilde) [think/weakness/courage]
• Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. (Oprah Winfrey) [think/greatness]
• Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities. (Oprah Winfrey) [think/possibilities]

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