Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and enslaved, just as the Prophet Muhammad decided centuries ago. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali And round and round and round. Why couldn't I get past the letter? Like poison id had seeped into every image and every memory I kept of Callum, polluting them until I couldn't tell which was real and what was just wishful thinking any more. Until at last, I was forced to face the inescapable fact that, for whatever reason, Callum had written the letter. - Malorie Blackman I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking. - Jan Brewer Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive? - Loi...

Next time I'll just send the three of you e-mails. What was I thinking when I decided to have this meeting? (Acheron) Oh, I know. That men who are a couple of thousand years old could actually behave like grownups? (Nick) (Zarek elbowed Nick in the stomach.) Oops. Involuntary arm spasm. (Zarek) - Sherrilyn Kenyon What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed. - Trudi Canavan I wasn't going to argue with you. Why ever would you think that? I never argue." Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it amazed him she was such a strong person. "Of course you do not argue. What was I thinking? Go to sleep, honey, and allow my poor body to rest." I'm already asleep. You're the one gabbing. - Christine Feehan His shelf. Good. Noodle dust. Decaying brain collecting dust. Must insert it back in skullwhat was I thinking? - Jarod Kintz T...

Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things. - John Flanagan Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you. - Judith Guest I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb.. - Robert Edison Fulton Jr I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. - Jon Krakauer He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on ...

Armani halted, thinking twice about making her way over there, but she pushed forward not wanting to believe something was wrong. There was nothing worse than walking into a nightmare. And Armani just did. The air in her lungs seized when she saw her draped all over him. She blinked a few times, but Lily was still pressing her body all over Rafael. Armani wanted to kill her, right then and there. - Suzan Battah She slapped Kestrel's face. Without thinking twice, Kestrel slapped her back, as hard as she could. The young woman burst into tears. The servant saw this, aghast. "Baby!" She exclaimed. "Oh, my poor baby!" "You've been kind to me," said Kestrel, "and you're very beautiful, but if you hit me again I'll kill you. - William Nicholson You beautiful girl. You've given new life to my Vincent. He might be strong of spirit, but he's a tender soul. And you've touched him. For as long as I've known him, his only motivat...

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much. - Virginia Woolf I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time. - Novak Djokovic Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much. - Clint Eastwood you are still young. free.. do yourself a favor. before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. you will not regret it. one day it will be too late. - Jhumpa Lahiri Instead of eating too much, I'm thinking too much and I need to throw up some of these thoughts before something vile happens. - Zoe Trope Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions. - Dwyane Wad...

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. - Terry Pratchett Stop thinking "Outside the box" and look what is actually in the box first. You jump around from marketing gimmick to marketing gimmick without a clear plan or goal, hoping to reproduce someone else's success without understanding all of the nuances and factors that went into that success. Further, people are so busy recreating the wheel that they have forgotten what the wheel looks like. - Julie Ann Dawson

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies. - Hermann Hesse It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost. - Richard Bach Succes is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. - Joyce Brothers Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. - Joyce Brothers Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. - Rick Warren Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys...

Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It's a mistake I don't want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it's by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we're able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life....little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman. - Philippa Gregory There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been. - Benjamin Jowett

The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton's thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the 'discovery' of the laws of gravity. - Jacob Bronowski With a kind of wry envy, Hazel realized that Bigwig was actually looking forward to meeting the Efrafan assault. He knew he could fight and he meant to show it. He was not thinking of anything else. The hopelessness of their chances had no important place in his thoughts. Even the sound of the digging, clearer already, only set him thinking of the best way to sell his life as dearly as he could. - Richard Adams The first impression scares the shit out of me, but it's breathtaking, too, like when you push off a cliff and feel the wind against your face. At that point, you're not thinking of anyth...

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others. - Ayn Rand There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. - Paramahansa Yogananda

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost. - Dennis Farina People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself. - Peter Gay

I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small... Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas. - Terry Mcauliffe You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors. - Andrew Shue I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. - Donald Trump

You know, sometimes you can be real scary. I don't what you were thinking back there when you took those shoes off, but all hair stood up on the back of my next." I had airport rage." Fuckin' A," Lula said. - Janet Evanovich In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes. - Stephen Ambrose And quite right too. Thinking back, actually, 'self-infatuation' strikes me as a rather ill-chosen word. It isn't so much that I like or love myself. Rather, I'm sentimental about myself. (I say, is this normal for someone my age?) What do I think of Charles Highway? I think: 'Charles Highway? Oh, I like him. Yes, I've got a soft spot for old Charles. He's all right is Charlie. Chuck's... okay. - Martin Amis Every book is...

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. - David Amram In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change. - David Amram No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them. - Amitabh Bachchan We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices. - Christine Gregoire I'm thinking ahead to how I'll be thinking back to me thinking ahead in this moment. - Jarod Kintz Thinking ahead is like remembering the future. - ...

it's easy to get outside yourself when you're thinking about someone else. - Christopher Mcdougall As the lights fade to a distant glow, I look back toward the city and imagine, somewhere in all of those lives, a little girl who is a lot like me. Maybe she rides in a car thinking about someone living far away from these lights and people. Even though our lives are separated by so much I wonder if she imagines the world through eyes like mine. - Noriko Nakada Nothingman" is about a troubled relationship. I wrote it before I was married.I might bring something I know from the relationship to "Nothingman," but I'm thinking about someone else going through it, someone who fucked up. I didn't fuck up. The idea is about if you love someone and they love you, don't fuck up... 'cause you are left with less than nothing. - Eddie Vedder

Just a cold. And I think maybe I'm pregnant, because I'm always riding the porcelain bus, or thinking about it. - Alex Adams When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch. - Douglas Adams Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else. - Richard Adams There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse. - Fleur Adcock I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense. - C...