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“I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].”

Thinking Action Political Opportunity Left Process Behinds Talking Keys Hopeful Being Real Rhetoric Left Behind

Author:John Kasich

“Lastly, the ashes left behind, May daily show to move the mind, That to ashes and dust return we must: Then think, and drink tobacco.”

Thinking Mind May Shows Moving Left Behinds Return Drink Dust Ashes Left Behind Tobacco Daily Show

Author:George Wither

“I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.”

Thinking Kind School Literature Left Wish Decision Gone University Knack English Literature

Author:Brendan Coyle

“I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.”

Thinking Knows Wells Character Left Skins He Left Me

Author:Peter Mayhew

“In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.”

Thinking Film Left Influence Industry Picks Visible Vans Film Industry Jackie Van Damme

Author:Scott Adkins

“We have seen that though Cristna was said to have left many sons, he left his immense empire, which extended from the sources of the Indus to Cape Comorin, (for we find a Regio Pandionis near this point,) to his daughter Pandæa; but, from finding the icon of Buddha so constantly shaded with the nine Cobras, &c., I am induced to think that this Pandeism was a doctrine, which had been received both by Buddhists and Brahmins.”

Thinking Said Left Son Source Findings Daughter Nine Doctrine Buddhist Empires Immense Icons Capes Cobras Brahmins

Book:Anacalypsis

Source: Anacalypsis

“The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.”

Thinking Way Trying Country Certain Left Successful Habit Difficulty France Being Successful Way Of Thinking

Author:Thomas Sankara

“A building get torched. All that is left is ashes. I used to think that it is true about everything - family, friends, feelings - but now I know that sometimes if love proves real, and two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Two Real Sometimes Feelings Together Used Left Building Prove Meant To Be Ashes Family Friends Meant To Be Together

Author:Sarah

“I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.”

Thinking Wells Left Teacher Ought Vote Paid Greed Corporate Corporate Greed

Author:Eleanor Catton

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.”

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.”

People Thinking Feels Children Left Four Growing Ten Lovely Britain More Time Grandchildren Parliament Alienation

Author:Tony Benn

“I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.”

People Thinking Knows Way Believe Has Beens Government Political Left Party Lessons Iraq Political Parties Invasion

Author:William Hague

“I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the struggles you go through. In my own particular situation, I left school at 15 and I was struggling to survive in the jungle and that was a great education. So I think just getting out there, hands on, learning to survive teaches you a lot.”

“That's what does it-- that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.”

Thinking Doe Moments Happens Lost Left Incredibles Tiny Revelations That Moment

Author:Steven Brust

“We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Culture Left Difficult Black Land Broken Connections Stronger South Developing Who We Are Pavement Transplants

Author:August Wilson

“I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.”

Thinking Years Has Beens School Left University Waiter Great Year

Author:Peter Mayle

“I miss 'EastEnders.' I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently - they've asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I'm not quite ready for it.”

Thinking Ends Night Left Sleep Missing Ready Husband My Husband Exhausted Tempted Sleeping At Night Windsor Not Sleeping

Author:Barbara Windsor

“You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.”

Thinking Knows Believe Art Left Art Is Don't Believe Supposed To Be Make Sense Listeners

Author:Shelby Lynne

“When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.”

Thinking Writing Made Reason Kids Left Ready Husband Meals My Time Buying My Husband Grocers

Author:Sadie Jones

“Oh, I always think everyone feels left out.”

Thinking Feels Left Left Out

Author:Sadie Jones

“The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.”

Thinking Knows Christian Left Loss Plans Claims Angry Cynical Transcendence Capricious Flotsam

Author:Brennan Manning

“They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Light Culture Left Space Air Planets Flying Aliens Lifts Monument Vacuums Runway Flying Saucers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I think LeBron asked out of the game once or twice before that, so we knew he was getting tired but we were all getting tired out there. ... I don't think I've played in anything like this since I left the islands.”

Thinking Games Left Tired Islands Championship Nba Championships Getting Tired Nba Finals

Author:Tim Duncan

“Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.”

Thinking Men Left Easy Taste Mark Nutrition Infatuation Tin Fiddle

Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.”

Thinking Men Should War Law Young Reading Left Term Mankind Advantage Convinced Young Man Allies Travel And Tourism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of what's so fun for, I think, many people when they first start to want to be an actor, is that they realise they enjoy making up a world around them to exist in, a whole situation and a whole way of being. And even more so than theatre, animation requires that because there's just nothing to go on. It's in your head and your heart or it's not there at all.”

People Thinking World Way Want Firsts Heart Whole Actors Left Fun Enjoy Imagination Situation Goes On Essence Theatre Realising Animation Making Up

Author:Jim Parsons

“2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He even wrote music and material that he left behind after he died that made reference to him dying already. I think the significance in that ties back to us knowing that that's our fate.”

Thinking Made Seems Left Behinds Situation Knowing Fate Dying Materials Shots Died Made It Obsessed Ties Significance Threatening Left Behind

Author:Curtis Jackson

“It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say.”

People Thinking World Giving Should Writing Mind Ends Facts Problem Might Left Ability Opinion Events Cry Solutions Paid Solve Bunch Print Comment Blast Clutter Tick

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.”

Thinking Humans Seems Eye Age Asks Lost Left Human Beings Animal Eternal Slavery Tragic Reminders

Author:Edith Wharton

“Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab, as long as my literary legs hold up.”

Thinking Writing Long Important Left Middle Criticism Legs

Book:Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper

Source: Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper

“Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another.”

Source: History of woman suffrage

“It's funny, people were asking me how I'd feel when it all ends, on the first movie, and I don't think I've ever felt more completely bewildered, knowing that I only have a month of Twilight stuff left to do.”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Ends Left Felt Stuff Knowing Months Asking Twilight Bewildered Funny People

Author:Robert Pattinson

“In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.”

Thinking Problem Today Choices Courses Left Levels Wise Fronts Solutions Crisis Welcome Alternatives Urges Warning Echoes Left And Right

Author:Arianna Huffington

“I always had hopes of being a big star. But as you get older, you aim a little lower. Everybody wants to make an impression, some mark upon the world. Then you think, you've made a mark on the world if you just get through it, and a few people remember your name. Then you've left a mark. You don't have to bend the whole world. I think it's better to just enjoy it. Pay your dues, and just enjoy it. If you shoot a arrow and it goes real high, hooray for you.”

People Ifs Thinking World Want Littles Made Real Whole Bigs Remember Names Left Stars Enjoy Pay Mark Aim Dues Impression Whole World Arrows

Author:Dorian Corey

“Did you hear this? They say now Osama bin Laden and his buddy Mullah Omar have left Afghanistan dressed as women. They dressed up as women and went across the border into Pakistan. I think they're going to make a movie about it. They're going to call it 'Some like it Jihad.'”

Thinking Left Borders Afghanistan Pakistan Buddy Bin Laden Dressed Up Osama Bin Laden Jihad Omar

Author:David Letterman

“These are the moments. These are the moments where you realize love is everywhere if you look closely. When you realize happiness isn't next weekend, and it's not last week, it's right now. That was one of the best nights of my life. It felt good to know purpose. I lay in my bunk and I think of all the stories I'm in. I think about all the stories that are in my story. I think about all the stories that are left to be written. And it might be my favorite book yet.”

“I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.”

Thinking Left Wish Fit Clothings Closets Thighs Diana

Author:Catherine Martin

“I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right to privacy. I mean something more than the right to shave in private. I mean the right to join what I want to join, to do what I want to do, or not to do what I might do without giving anyone a reason, either in advance or afterwards. That does not mean that I am seeking for irresponsibility socially.”

Thinking Want Giving Mean Doe Important Reason Might Left Rights Society Elements Seeking Privacy Contributing Left Out Irresponsibility Dynamism Right To Privacy

Author:Chester Barnard

“I don't think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote it. Grown-ups have fostered this quotient of identity, particularly teachers. Write a letter to your favorite author and so forth. When I was a child I never realized that there were authors behind books. Books were there as living things, with identities of their own.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Writing Children Book Left Behinds Teacher Identity Letters Living Things Your Favorite

Author:P. L. Travers

“You don't appreciate home until you leave it and, let me tell you, you can't appreciate life till you've almost left it! Some people hope and die with their song still in them. I used to think that happiness resulted when my earnings matched my yearnings! But not anymore!”

People Thinking Stills Home Used Song Dies Left Appreciate Let Me Yearning Earning Matched Appreciate Life

Author:Patsy Cline

“I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!”

Thinking Way Should Years Believe Heart Soul Dream Body Light Fighting Left Loses Struggle Youth Genius Waste Musician Murder Bread Lofty Best Year Heart Breaking Years Of Life

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen's left ear.”

Thinking Science Left Ears Experts Sections

Author:Martin Berkeley

“When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.”

Thinking Men Different Left Discipline Prison Aggressive Arrogant Wrath Grapes

Author:Nelson Mandela

“I guess he was such an open, emotional vessel that I think he tapped into human nature, so it just left people wondering what would have happened. I think James Dean would be 83 today. He could be here, what would he be doing?”

People Thinking Humans Would Be Today Left Nature Wonder Happened Human Nature Emotional Vessel Dean

Author:Dane DeHaan

“How you prepare for a role is entirely your business in my point of view. There is little enough mystery anymore left in the world in the part of our profession, which should be clouded in mystery because it isn't in the public. You don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you? So I do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from.”

Thinking World Want Should Littles Enough Shows Actors Left Views Roles Mystery Protect Point Of View Profession Tricks Magician Clouded Private Things

Author:Christopher Plummer

“I think we need to lift our spirits and have high, lofty expectations for this great country of ours.The new normal of two percent [growth] that the left is saying you can't do anything about is so dangerous for our country.”

Thinking Needs Two Country Spirit Left Growth Dangerous Normal Expectations Percent Our Country Lifts Lofty Great Country New Normal

Author:Jeb Bush

“I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.”

Thinking I Can Certain Left

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down - I'm a skilled writer, I've been doing it all my life - and I can get down to it.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Sometimes Left Stuff My Own Pressure Expecting Under Pressure

Author:Dolly Parton

“As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.”

Thinking Important Earth Left Rights Movement Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The most active people in the country know different things, and because each one tends to hear mostly and deal mostly with people with whom they agree, they are reinforced not simply in the conviction that they are right, which is totally appropriate, but that they are the majority. So you have both sides, the Left and the Right, thinking that the majority of the country is really with them.”

People Thinking Knows Different Country Left Sides Deals Agree Majority Conviction Active Appropriate Different Things Both Sides

Author:Barney Frank