Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ethan Zuckerman

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

Christopher Hitchens

The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.

Gertrude Stein

Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.

Hans Kung

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Gretchen Rubin

Feelings follow actions. If I'm feeling low, I deliberately act cheery, and I find myself actually feeling happier. If I'm feeling angry at someone, I do something thoughtful for her and my feelings toward her soften. This strategy is uncannily effective.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If we live by the principles of the gospel, we must be good people, for we will be generous and kind, thoughtful and tolerant, helpful and outreaching to those in distress. We can either subdue the divine nature and hide it so that it finds no expression in our lives, or we can bring it to the front and let it shine through all that we do.

Henry David Thoreau

We belong to the community. It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as much the preacher, and the merchant, and the farmer. Where is this division of labor to end? and what object does it finally serve? No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

Henry David Thoreau

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

Jill Soloway

My experience as a Jewish American has often been as a spectator of one-sided conversations, or more like monologues, about Israel, Jewish History, Jewish identity, etc. Although there are profound divisions amongst Jews on all of these topics there are not many opportunities for deep and thoughtful dialogue about them.

Hosea Ballou

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

Hannah Arendt

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

Harold Russell

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

Howard Schultz

Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.

Honore de Balzac

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

Ina Garten

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: This is something that's way overdue for this city.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Become the world's most thoughtful friend.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Gary Hamel

During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.

Jerry Cantrell

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

I can also withstand considerably more G-force than most people, even though I do say so myself.

I feel as though we can play a lot better defensively.

I feel as though I've been very lucky.

Boy George

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

Liam Neeson

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

I'm not very eccentric. I wear more conservative clothes, though I do like mini-skirts.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

William Penn

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.

will.i.am

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Even though I am smiling, I have some suffering in my heart.

We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

Malala Yousafzai

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.