Quotes for All
It’s really fascinating. I’ve never spent time in a place where they lost the wars, so it was interesting and I didn’t know much about the history of the country. I didn’t know they were under communist rule until the nineties. It’s this whole attitude of being defeated, and frowning on optimism and American way … Read more
Confidence, to my way of thinking, generally is all the magic needed to work miracles. Evalyn Walsh McLean
What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to ‘pay homage to the transitive’ and enjoy ‘a becoming in which one never becomes’ Reading The Argonauts made me happier and … Read more
People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store. Ethel M. Dell
I’d really rather that nobody had a gun, and then nobody would have to worry about it. That would be more my theory. In America, there’s this knee-jerk response that more walls and more guns make people safer, and I’m entirely suspect of that way of thinking. Ethan Hawke
Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness. Erykah Badu
Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way … Read more
To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children. Erma Bombeck
For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists. Elia Kazan
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking. Elayne Boosler