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“I think it is in grief that we need some reminder of our humanity--and sometimes, someone to say it for us. Poetry steps in at those moments when ordinary words fail: poetry as ceremony, as closure to what cannot be closed.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Mourning Poems Ceremony Closure

Author:Kevin Young

Source: The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing

“I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.”

People Thinking Government Interest Crime Victim Get Away Serbia

Author:Michael Kirby

“I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.”

Thinking Self Individual Entity

Author:Ray Dalio

“I think it is incredibly important to be open and accessible and treat people fairly and look them in the eye and tell them what is on your mind.”

People Thinking Mind Looks Important Eye Treats

Author:Bob Iger

“I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.”

Thinking Humans Form Human Beings Injustice Incumbents

Author:Hugh Masekela

“I think it is inevitable that leftist forces in the US would be divided, if not balkanized, to some extent. Among the full range of people who are committed to social and economic equality and ecological justice - i.e. to some variant of a leftist vision of a decent society - it will always be the case that some will be more focused on egalitarian economic issues, others around the environment and climate change, others on US imperialism, militarism and foreign policy, others on race and gender equality, and still others on sexual identity.”

People Thinking Justice Vision Environment Economic Policy Identity Climate Change Committed Gender Focused Inevitable Decent Foreign Policy Imperialism Gender Equality Ecological

Author:Robert Pollin

“I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.”

People Thinking Matter Helping Technology Learning Computer Training Program Inevitable Programming Treatment Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language

Author:Alan Perlis

“I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.”

People Thinking Way Ends Jobs Political Economic Bottom Ladders Minimum Wage Counterproductive

Author:Paul Ryan

“I think it is interesting that God designed people to need other people. We see those cigarette advertisements with the rugged cowboy riding around alone on a horse, and we think that is strength, when really, it is like setting your soul down on a couch and not exercising it. The soul needs to interact with other people to be healthy.”

God Friendship Strength Alone Fellowship

Author:Donald Miller

Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when man really reaches, across the vast seas of space, he still reaches in ships.”

Thinking Men Stills Stars Space Interesting Sea Ships Jet Transport Star Gazing Shorthand

Author:John Fowles

Source: Wormholes

“I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe's deserve a free and fair election.”

People Thinking President Leader Deserve Fairs Election Zimbabwe Mugabe

Author:Raila Odinga

“I think it is just a matter of getting into the mind of the writer,” Vetinari went on, looking at a letter covered with grubby fingerprints and what looked like the remains of someone’s breakfast. He added: “In some cases, I imagine, there is a lot of room.”

Sarcasm Social Commentary Vetinari Insult To Intelligence

Author:Terry Pratchett

Source: Making Money

“I think it is just a matter of time before we have literal ghosts in the machine so you can create an alter ego of yourself that learns from your social experiences and extends a life even if you're no longer in the game or you are no longer alive.”

Ifs Thinking Matter Games Social Alive Ego Machines Ghost Literal Matter Of Time Alter Ego

Author:Paul Saffo

“I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.”

Thinking Government Enemy Economic Stupid Approach Economics Management Unions Strands

Author:Bob Hawke

“I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs......When I was on drugs I couldn't even find my bike.”

Thinking Winning Race Terrible Drug Seven Treated France Disgusting Bike Armstrong

Author:Willie Nelson

“I think it is just the way he has changed the game overall and his own game because there are so many situations he has faced. He is now competing mostly against himself, like most great cricketers do. I think he has mastered all of them. The only challenge he has is to beat himself every time he walks out there because he has done almost everything.”

Thinking Way Done Games Challenges Walks Situation Changed Beats Competing Cricket Cricketers Game Over

Author:Kumar Sangakkara

“I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there are in ... important positions in society”

Thinking Kind Important Position Female Filmmaker Depressing

Author:Susanne Bier

“I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"”

Thinking Men Kind Important Character Lines Direct Actresses Frustrating

Author:Romola Garai

“I think it is less the limited amount of information than the filters that information about the Middle East must pass through before being fairly addressed in the mainstream media. In more intellectual and geopolitical terms, the perceptions of the region are distorted by a combination of Orientalism and the priorities of the state of Israel, including the refusal to discuss the relevance of Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal in the context of addressing Iran on its nuclear program.”

“I think it is likely that success will only affect people who will perceive despite the difficulty and mistakes.”

Quotes Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Famous Entrepreneur Quotes Citation Celerbrities Christdl

Author:Chris TDL

“I think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .”

Thinking Lost Lost Love

Author:Walt Whitman

“I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.”

Thinking Body Lost Left Fire Cold Flames Embers Sluggish

Author:Walt Whitman

“I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a fighter pilot. You don't understand it if you fly from A to B in straight and level, and merely climb and descend. You're moving through the basement of that bolt of blue.”

Ifs Thinking Moving Levels Sky Blue Flight Fighter Climbs Aviation Pilots Bolts Basements Playgrounds Ifs And Vaults Fighter Pilot

Author:Robin Olds

“I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade.”

Thinking Climate Change

Author:Joe Biden

“I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade. If you don't understand what the cause is, it's virtually impossible to come up with a solution. We know what the cause is. The cause is manmade. That's the cause. That's why the polar icecap is melting.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Causes Environment Impossible Solutions Environmental Climate Change Come Up Melting

Author:Joe Biden

“I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.”

People Thinking Enough Protect Fairs Excited Enthusiasm Perceive Cautiousness

Author:Jack Dee

“I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Important Stories Trends Tails Coats

Author:Clint Eastwood

“I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling.”

Thinking Has Beens Feelings Seeing Following Ghost Vague

Author:Conor Oberst

“I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three Bs: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Kind Art Three Secret Brain Quality Share Personality Balance Horse Bones Intuitive Breeding Starters Great Horse

Author:Alice Walton

“I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.”

Thinking Important Play Study Teacher Pieces Students Being Played

Author:James Galway

“I think it is natural that every country has to take care of its interests, but there are some interests that are common to all countries. There are some human interests, or we need also international cooperation. We've sometimes confused it with dictation.”

Thinking Needs Humans Country Sometimes Care Interest Natural Common International Take Care Confused Cooperation Dictation International Cooperation

Author:George Soros

“I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.”

People Thinking Feels Stories Beautiful Nice Appreciate Feel Good Burning Blunt Make You Feel Good

Author:Emily Blunt

“I think it is nice to be a little magical. Today we need this. All that we can read in fairy tales or in books. I think somewhere it is all around us. But nowadays we can think that this magic has been killed and I am try to make it survive as long as possible.”

Thinking Needs Trying Littles Long Has Beens Book Today Nice Magic Tales Fairy Fairy Tale

Author:Klaus Nomi

“I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.”

“I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind.”

“I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions.”

People Thinking Important Today Political Religion House Secret Race Conviction Realising Frank Persecuted

Author:Otto Frank

“I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian in a good frame, and how serious, heavenly, and profitable, will his converses and duties be! what a lovely companion is he during the continuance of it!”

Thinking Christian Spirit Difficult Serious Duty Lovely Heavenly Companion Profitable Converses Continuance

Author:John Flavel

Source: Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel

“I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.”

Thinking Wells Littles Church Known Well Known Payment Tithing Not Well Known

Author:A. Theodore Tuttle

“I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research”

“I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal records for smoking marijuana. Too many people have gone to jail for nonviolent crimes. So I think it's important for us to rethink the war on drugs.”

People Thinking Important War Gone Records Crime Drug Understood Criminals Smoking Jail Marijuana War On Drugs

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.”

Thinking Should Believe Persons Ends Matter Done No Matter What Entitled Obscene

Author:Richard Attenborough

“I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.”

People Thinking Want Violence Television Inspire Obvious Screens Repeats

Author:Mackenzie Astin

“I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Feels Firsts Littles Enough Dream Bigs Names Sound Challenges Progress Crazy Dog Easier Competition Sticks Nuts Ambitious Packs Graduation Glue Big Challenges Mega

Author:Larry Page

“I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.”

Thinking Humans Human Beings Style Capacity

Author:Susie Orbach

“I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires us old goats too.”

Thinking Men World Wells Country Young Energy Inspire Election Extraordinary Inspired Our Country Barack Young Man Remarkable Temperament Goats Turning Points Demeanor

Author:David McCullough

“I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.”

Thinking Mistake Determine Hindsight

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read them, maybe they can seem contradictory.”

Thinking Seems Optimistic Contradictory

Author:Faris Badwan

“I think it is our job as poets to refuse the terms that society so often sets for usefulness. That, for instance, is what Dickinson did: she refused to be a wife, a homemaker, a standard member of her community. She knew she had to in order to have the space and time to write her poems. Thank god she said no!”

Thinking Writing Term Community Wife Poet Thank God Time And Space Usefulness Homemaker

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Important Stories Jobs Fiction Structure Tiny Why Not Epic Fiction Writers

Author:Colum McCann

“I think it is our nature to believe evil always has an ugly face,” he said, ignoring my question. “Beauty is supposed to be good and kind, and to discover it otherwise is like a betrayal of trust. A violation of the nature of things.”

Evil Beauty

Author:Danielle L. Jensen

Source: Stolen Songbird

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