Think Quotes

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

~ Robert Henri

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

~ George Lucas

There's so many people who have never heard of us, but I think what we've learned is you can't underestimate the power of a core fan base and people who believe what you're doing. I think they're the ultimate marketers. They're the ones promoting us.

~ Tyler Joseph

Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

~ Pamela Meyer

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

~ Clarence Darrow

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.

~ Guillermo Del Toro

It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

~ Elon Musk

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.

~ Stephen Lewis

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

~ Thom Yorke

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

~ Gaylord Nelson

Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.

~ Denis Leary

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

~ Ethel Merman

I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort of pounce out of the jungle.

~ Josh Homme

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

~ Stephen Hawking

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.

~ Slash

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

~ Master P

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

~ Constantine Karamanlis

If Donald Trump is our nominee, I don't think that he represents the best our party has to offer either in temperament or qualification, and I think he's the weakest candidate that is in the race at this point in terms of the general election, and that to nominate him is to give Hillary Clinton a much better chance of being president.

~ Trent Franks

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

~ Louis Tomlinson

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

~ Dave Thomas

This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

~ Bruce Babbitt

I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.

~ Buzz Aldrin

I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.

~ Andy Serkis

If 'The Hobbit' happens - and there's reason to believe that it will - then I think I'm in with a chance! Gollum is very much part of 'The Hobbit,' after all.

~ Andy Serkis

If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.

~ Rob Lowe

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.

~ Evangeline Lilly

I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women should have.

~ Janet Yellen

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

~ Mario Andretti

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

~ Anatole France

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

~ Adam Arkin

Thankfully, we didn't stop at Malta. I think Malta was thankful, too.

~ Spike Milligan

I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important - while you're in it, you might not know, but now I think of the things I was thankful for.

~ Jewel

I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to connect to my stories. I don't consciously think about age demographics when I'm working on my comics.

~ Gene Luen Yang

I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.

~ Ariana Grande

I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

~ Mario Balotelli

I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.

~ David Talbot

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

~ Scott Brooks

If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.

~ Peter Hammill

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

~ John Bytheway