Thinking Quotes - Page 25

• [On the New Testament:] I ... must enter my protest against the false translation of some passages by the men who did that work, and against the perverted interpretation by the men who undertook to write commentaries thereon. I am inclined to think, when we [women] are admitted to the honor of studying Greek and Hebrew, we shall produce some various readings of the Bible a little different from those we now have.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Bible, Reading, Writing

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.16

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• I think the willingness to listen is really a matter of confidence. You can't be so superconfident in your abilities that you ignore what others say, and you can't be so diffident in your abilities that you think that if they say something, you will be so taken in that you will do the wrong thing. When you are confident about your abilities and also fully aware of what you don't know you are willing to listen to outside experts with the full sense that if you don't find it worthwhile you will ignore it.

  Raghuram Rajan

  Taken, Listening, Matter

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• I think having an animal in your life makes you a better human.

  Rachael Ray

  Animal, Humans

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• I do sit-ups and push-ups at home, and that's about it. I have a gym card, but I never go there. It's a front. I pay for the membership every couple of years, thinking I'll be embarrassed enough to go. But every time I go, there's like people twice my age that look twice as good!

  Rachael Ray

  Couple, Home, Years

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• I think that celebrities are just people, like everybody else, and they've got the foodie bug in them too.

  Rachael Ray

  People, Bugs

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. December 28, 2011.

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• Autumn is the Sabbath of the year; the time to think of all the past: nature's calm twilight before the darkness. It does make all men think at times; even the lightest and the worst. The distant days of our springtime, our faded summer, comes over us like a dream. We sit in the evening of our life in tender musings, and all that has been takes shadowy form again, and passes through the thoughts.

  Cunningham Geikie

  Summer, Dream, Twilight

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• I don't know that I have a favorite meal. When I'm cooking I'm thinking about the person I'm feeding and I want to make them whatever they want. My husband's favorite meal is carbonara. I guess my favorite food is anything my mom makes. Because like anybody who loves their mother's cooking, if you try and make your mom's recipes, they never taste quite the same. And I don't know if that's because she's lying about what she's putting in there and just not telling me. Like when I turn my back, she's sneaking something in there. It just never seems to taste the same.

  Rachael Ray

  Mom, Mother, Husband

  "Interview with Celebrity Chef Rachael Ray". The Celebrity Cafe Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. March 27, 2012.

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• That's a horrible thought. I guess cheese or wine. I think I might be too depressed to eat if I had to eat only one thing for the rest of my life.

  Rachael Ray

  Wine, Might, Cheese

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• No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dream, Men, Night

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• Thinking nurseth thinking.

  Philip Sidney

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.12

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• There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.

  Philip Sidney

  Giving, World, Charity

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• The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Foundation, Noble

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.23

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• A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.

  Philip Sidney

  Wise, Dull, Way

  Sir Philip Sidney, James Hain Friswell (1867). “The Countess of Pembrokes' Arcadia ... With Notes and Introductory Essay by Hain Friswell, Etc”, p.126

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• To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

  Arthur Helps

  Improvement, Worthy, Aspire

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• I have a thousand brilliant lies
  For the question:
  How are you?
  
  I have a thousand brilliant lies
  For the question:
  What is God?
  
  If you think that the Truth can be known
  From words,
  
  If you think that the Sun and the Ocean
  Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,
  
  O someone should start laughing!
  Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!

  Hafez

  God, Truth, Lying

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• The common ground where the activities of God and man become one is the motive of perfect love; for in the last resolve love is the essence of God's nature. When he thinks, love is his thought; when he wills, love is the product of his will. To the degree, therefore, that man thinks and wills the good--to the degree that he realizes love in his finite dealings--he interfuses himself with God.

  Frank C. Lockwood

  Love Is, Men, Essence

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• The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.

  C. S. Lewis

  Military, War, Church Service

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• No woman dares express all she thinks.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Dare, Timidity

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• In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. Of the ones still alive, I can think of E.B. White. I certainly admire the pure, crystal stream of his prose. When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others. I had a series of heroes who would delight me for a while and I'd imitate them--Damon Runyon, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Hero, Writing

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• I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Real, Writing

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• As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves—the fern and the needled pine and the latticed frond and the seaweed ribbon—perceive the light in a fundamental and constructive sense. … Their leaves see the light, as my eyes can never do. … They impound its stellar energy, and with that force they make life out of the elements.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Eye, Men, Light

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• Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Oysters, Pearls, Discrimination

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• I think unity is a mistake.... If I were the Establishment and had the big loaded guns of the various oppressive institutions....I would much prefer to see one lion come through the door than 500 mice.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Mistake, Gun, Doors

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• Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Taken, Voice, Evil

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164”, p.280, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Today, Tomorrow, Spending

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