Thoughtful Quotes - Page 8

• In the 1950s and '60s the [democrat] party included many obviously earnest and thoughtful liberals who supported goals that were in line with and expressions of serious beliefs. They believed that America was an exceptional country.

  Peggy Noonan

  Country, Party, Expression

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• We must protect the very things that make America so special - most certainly including our civil liberties. But we cannot do so without strong national security and a thoughtful and informed discourse.

  Mike Pompeo

  Strong, America, Special

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• Ive taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and Ive actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Believe, Taken, Creative

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• It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, Giving, Quirky

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• Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.

  Dave Calhoun

  Photography, Country, Artist

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• By Cunning & Craft is a masterpiece of writing about writing. If, like Scheherazade, you had to spin out a story under threat of death, this is the how-to book to read. It's filled with thoughtful, nuanced advice from a teacher/writer who actually writes, and writes beautifully and with great humor. The list of rejected stories is worth the price of the whole book.

  Nora Gallagher

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

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• Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mean, Thinking, Feelings

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• We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thinking, Essence, Water

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thinking, Keeping Secrets, Faces

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hope, Children, Thinking

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• What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Thinking, Order

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.44, Regnery Publishing

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• There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void.

  Percival Lowell

  Sight, Sky, Inspire

  Percival Lowell (1908). “Mars as the abode of life”

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• I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Significant, Feels

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• And the way
  Though discontinuous, and intermittent, sometimes
  Not heard of for years at a time, did,
  Nonetheless, move up, although, to his surprise
  It was inside the house,
  And always getting narrower.

  John Ashbery

  Moving, Thinking, Years

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

  Al Gore

  Men, Thinking, Judging

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• Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.

  George Bellows

  Trying, Done, Spontaneous

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• The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking

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• And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Breathing, Life And Death

  'She was a phantom of delight' (1807)

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• What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Book, Writing

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• Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Thinking, Pressure

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.58, Random House

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• it's impossible I should have a mind and I have one

  Samuel Beckett

  Thinking, Should Have, Mind

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.232, Grove Press

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• Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Deeds, Action

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• In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Philosophical, Thinking

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