Thoughtful Quotes - Page 34

• The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most devoted saint is stained with sin and full of error; the bravest heart among us will fail and break; but Christ is altogether lovely, holy, and unfailing.

  Paul Washer

  Heart, Errors, Lovely

  Source: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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• There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment. I found the experience of weightlessness to be one of the most fun and enjoyable, challenging and rewarding, experiences of spaceflight. Returning to Earth brings with it a great sense of heaviness, and a need for careful movement. In some ways it's not too different from returning from a rocking ocean ship.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Fun, Ocean, Challenges

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what you're writing, then everything else you do is superfluous. Irrelevant. If any thoughtful, curious reader finds what I do impenetrable, I've failed.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mother, Writing, Simplicity

  Goodreads interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

  Edwin Markham

  Encouraging, Kindness, Adversity

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• Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

  Jerry Fleishman

  Strength, Encouraging, Appreciation

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• The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Love Is, People

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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• She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Great Expectations, Very Good

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.149

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• Bright star,” Magnus said, and his eyes were thoughtful, as if he were remembering something, or someone. “Those of you who are mortal, you burn so fiercely. And you fiercer than most, Will. I will not ever forget you.”.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stars, Eye, Remember

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, prepare yourself. I am all kinds of thoughtful this week. I brought you something else.

  J. Lynn

  Kind, Week, Wells

  J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You (Wait For You, Book 1)”, p.23, HarperCollins UK

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• THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Believe, Love You

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• Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, World, Tests

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.424, Delphi Classics

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• When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

  Johnny Carson

  Issues, Finding Yourself, Serious

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color amongst the sea of traditional black. Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Rain, Light, Color

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• Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Selfish, Reality

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• I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be nicer to one another. It's something we have in our power to do. It reminds me of that Margaret Mead quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Doubt, Groups, Citizens

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• Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.

  Studs Terkel

  Couple, Book, Mean

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.

  Douglas Conant

  People, Want, Way

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• Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false morality that vanishes as soon as the police go on strike or the spy camera is switched off, whether the spy camera is a real one monitored in the police station or an imaginary one in heaven.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, People, Heaven

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Mind, Contentment

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• We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

  David J. C. MacKay

  Numbers, People, Use

  "Think big on renewables scale" by David J. C. MacKay, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.

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• Frank Martin is a rarity. Dexterous as a player, writer and singer, he is thoughtful and skilled in his approach and passionate in his delivery. He is a unique, first-class musical personality.

  Tom Kimmel

  Player, Unique, Class

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• I'll just be the first to say that Ken [Watanabe] should be a national treasure in Japan, because he is an unbelievably talented actor. You couldn't find more of a gentleman. He's sweet, he's kind and he's extremely thoughtful in the work that he does.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Sweet, Japan, Gentleman

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, Feminist, Leader

  "And our flag was still there" by Barbara Kingsolver, www.sfgate.com. September 25, 2001.

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• It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

  Paul Valery

  Love, Relationship, Distance

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• Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspirational, Marriage, Love You

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