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“Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.”

Thinking Way May Children Has Beens Seems Would Be Mother Father Family Boys Too Much Expecting Inadequate Mother Love Unloved

Author:Frank Pittman

“People interpret things through their owns lens, just the way they do the Bible. You can find justification for just about everything in the Bible. I think man has got a great ego when it comes to his God, whatever that is. It just seems to me that someone who wants to take on God's punishment, it just seems a huge egoism to think that he should appoint himself to take care of God's punishments.”

People Thinking Men Way Want Should Seems Care Huge Ego Bible Take Care Punishment Justification Lenses Egoism

Author:Bill Paxton

“I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.”

Ifs Thinking Seems Disaster Exodus

Author:David Graeber

“Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.”

People Thinking May Seems Information Fundamentals Access Access To Information

Author:Alberto Gonzales

“People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, ... They raise the gas prices, but what the Everyman makes and welfare never seem to keep up. The HMO system is so ridiculous. I'm slightly educated. No one wants to hear what Hilary Duff thinks of the economy.”

People Thinking Want Seems Economy College Vote Raises Caring Ridiculous Educated Welfare Gas Gas Prices Everyman Stop Caring

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies.”

Thinking Mind Real Seems Stuff Tragedy

Author:Gregg Allman

“Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.”

Thinking Men May Seems Acceptance Weakness Borrowed

Book:Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

“What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.”

Thinking Inspirational Seems Next Impossible Minutes Positive Thinking Confidence One Minute

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Seems Asks Steps Player Negative Ask Me Insult Ems Keyboards New Music Keyboard Players

Author:Noel Gallagher

“RELIGION is one's opinion and belief in some ethical truth. To be a Christian is to have the religion of Christ, and so to be a believer of Mohammed is to be a Mohammedan but there are so many religions that every man seems to be a religion unto himself. No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.”

Ifs Thinking Men Persons Two Seems Christian Belief Christ Christianity Opinion Believer Every Man Ethical Godly Opinions And Beliefs

Book:Philosophy and opinions: Edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey

Source: Philosophy and opinions: Edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey

“I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.”

Thinking Seems Moving Democracy Media Essentials Competition Moving Away Voting And Democracy

Author:Walter Cronkite

“C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed.”

Thinking World Made Soul Whole Seems Rich Behavior Plant Saint Whole World Lilies Good Behavior

Author:John Muir

“How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!”

Thinking Life Looks Kind Seems Earth Pain Girl Heaven Behinds Kindness Wife Comfort Compare Odd Eclipse That Girl

Book:Poems (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

Source: Poems (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

“War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.”

People Thinking Art War Whole Reality Seems Lying Difficult Secret Adversaries

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do it, it seems to me, result in greater damage than it can do itself. After all, it was not an invention of man, but of God.”

People Thinking Men Matter Seems Sex Can Do Results Effort Greater Ought Connected Invention Damage Puzzles

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“People seem to think fighters are lovely people when they meet us. It's 'cause we don't have to prove anything.”

People Thinking Seems Causes Prove Lovely Fighter Mma

Author:Andy Ogle

“A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.”

Thinking Men Littles Said Seems Heard Mere Creeds Sermons Huxley Norwich

Author:Adrian Desmond

“I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?”

Thinking Looks Seems Worship Sick Majority Artificial Fashionable

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I just think the idea of moving away from the body and discovering sensuality by skimming the body, not tightening the body, seems rather new to me. Especially in this world where we're living right now, where the idea of giving freedom to women, especially in politics what's happening, it seemed so appealing to me, so that was the starting point.”

Thinking World Giving Ideas Body Seems Moving This World Right Now Happenings Starting Sensuality Discovering Starting Point Moving Away Living Right Skimming Living Right Now

Author:Prabal Gurung

“I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.”

Thinking Doe Facts Seems Fighting Winning Sports Athlete Ugly Harm Bother Opponents Damage

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“I think it seems like a natural progression to go into directing, and I hope to explore more of it, because it's very exciting and a really good way to collide all the things that you've known and experienced in the business and put them all into one.”

Thinking Way Seems Natural Known Exciting Progression Good Way Collide

Author:Lucy Liu

“I think the main big thing for me has been the acceptance from the U.S. That's still crazy to me. To come over to the U.S. and be a British girl and have all these people know who I am. It's unbelievable and it just seems to be getting better and better.”

People Thinking Knows Has Beens Stills Bigs Seems Girl Crazy Acceptance British Who I Am Get Better Unbelievable Big Things

Author:Cher Lloyd

“I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.”

Thinking Feels I Can Seems Singing Sound Of Music Anything And Everything Sound And Music

Author:Maria von Trapp

“It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.”

People Thinking Seems Born Memories Produce Ambition Draws Comic Comprehension My Ambition Comic Strips

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also aren’t gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. In the current rhetorical climate people seem not to want to say: I think guns are kind of scary and don’t want to be around them.”

People Thinking Want Kind Mean Country Seems Half Cases Gun Climate Currents Scary Aliens Owners Rhetorical Gun Owners

Author:Josh Marshall

“I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.”

Thinking Children Self Seems Parent Differences Self Esteem Tough Concerned Assuming Western Esteem Behave Immigrants Fragility Psych Immigrant Parents

Author:Amy Chua

“In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow Christians and only fellow Christians. It is one thing to stand against religious hypocrisy when one sees it, but it is another to go on snorting at anything or anyone who might seem 'too Christian' to us. The irony is that by doing this we are further advocating hypocrisy and 'half-hearted Christians'.”

Thinking World Seems Might Christian Winning Christ Religious Half One Thing Modern Goes On Fellows Irony Hypocrisy Approval Hearted Advocating Demoralizing Half Hearted

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day.”

“I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Years Kind Book Seems Care Kids School Reading Hours High School Don't Care Teenager I Don't Care Insecurity Lunch Misfits Jocks School Years

Author:Charles de Lint

“I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers.”

People Thinking Children Ideas Home Seems Would Be School Order Strong Accepting Teacher Special Discipline Burden Punishment Obligation Very Strong Unfair Reluctant Corporal Punishment

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect mix: the characters make the war, and the war unmakes the characters. The gods, fates, furies had a relatively small hand in it. The mess was man-made, a synthetic, by think tank out of briefing session.”

Thinking Men Made War Character Hands Seems Perfect Fiction Fate Mess Plot Vietnam Session Fury Tanks Rotten Synthetic Briefing Small Hands

Author:Wilfrid Sheed

“The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be considered as the commonplace of everyday thinking. ... An innate blindness seems to have closed the eyes of this epoch to all but those facts which show life as a phenomenon of utility”

Thinking May Stills Facts Shows Seems Eye Century Everyday Interpretation Phenomenon Blindness Innate Utility Commonplace Nineteenth Century Epoch Utilitarian

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.”

People Thinking World Trying Ends Seems Might Views Half Imagine This World Building Comfort Comfortable Regard Prison Ugly Doctrine Optimistic Hotel Pessimist Other Half

Author:C. S. Lewis

“It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition. This last act of our lives seldom belies the former tenor of them for stupidity, caprice, and unmeaning spite. All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so (in settling accounts with those who are so unmannerly as to survive us) as to do as little good, and to plague and disappoint as many people, as possible.”

People Thinking Littles Matter Seems Lasts Opportunity Natural Our Lives Exercise Accounts Stupidity Manage Former Settling Spite Disposition Plague Disappoint Tenors Caprice Perversity

Author:William Hazlitt

“Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.”

Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works

“Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.”

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried to project the Creator in any kind of human likeness. The vociferous debates about whether God is male or female seem ridiculous to me. I think of God as an omnipotent and omniscient presence, a spirit that permeates the universe, the essence of truth, nature, being, and life. To me, these are profound and indescribable concepts that seem to be trivialized when expressed in words.”

Source: Living Faith

“I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the sky at night and think am I alone in the universe? Well most people get over it, but I never did and though I made a career more in physics and cosmology than astrobiology I've always had a soft spot for the subject of life because it does seem so mysterious.”

People Thinking Wells Looks Doe Made Seems Night Universe Interest Careers Sky Subjects Physics Spots Mysterious Teenager Look Up Over It Elsewhere Teens Get Over Cosmology

Author:Paul Davies

“There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Seems Sacrifice Integrity Hollywood Notion Scared Excuse Making Money Good Work Bullshit Doing Good

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Norway is pretty forward thinking in terms of gender equality, but we don't seem to practice it as well as we think. I'm constantly thinking: How much power have we really gained? We have to keep fighting to even keep what we've fought for already.”

Thinking Wells Seems Fighting Term Practice Gender Gender Equality Norway Forward Thinking Constantly Thinking

Author:Jenny Hval

“I was not, though, born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Despite what people seem to think.”

People Thinking Seems Born Mouths Prosperity Despite Silver Spoons Silver Spoons

Author:Michael Audain

“I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world seem like a richer place. The world is awfully short on joy and richness, and I think to some extent it’s the fiction writer’s job to salvage some of that and to give it to us in ways that we can believe in.”

People Thinking World Way Want Giving Believe Seems Jobs Joy Fiction Tiny Meaningful Richness Fiction Writers Salvage

Author:Wells Tower

“I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is suggesting that the more that you demand people's external attention, the less chance you are allowing them to dip into the default mode where daydreams and reflection happen - and lot of great ideas are not going to come from the brute force of work but from personal life experience. Mind-wandering seems to be essential to the creative process, and I don't think a lot of businesses are aware of that fact.”

“Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?”

Thinking Love Giving Feels May Stills Two Seems Past Left Gone Graves One Love Bosoms

Book:The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

“One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.”

Thinking Needs Philosophy Seems Values Mistake Argument Appeals Goods Spares Judgmental Non Judgmental

Author:Michael Sandel

“The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.”

People Thinking Trying Use Dream Seems Evil Pay Dreamer

Book:The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.”

Thinking Persons Long Sometimes Hard Seems Evil Winning Ignorance Goodness Long Time Weakness Hard Times Good Person Trustworthy Wrong Thinking

Book:Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.”

People Thinking Philosophy Seems Stupid Stupidity

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures. Everywhere we look we see brutality, stupidity, until it seems that there is nothing else to be seen but that--a descent into barbarism, everywhere, which we are unable to check. But I think that while it is true there is a general worsening, it is precisely because things are so frightening we become hypnotized, and do not notice--or if we notice, belittle--equally strong forces on the other side, the forces, in short, of reason, sanity and civilization.”

Source: Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

“I think Miss Moore was right to cut "The Steeple-Jack" - the poem seems plainer and clearer in its shortened state but she has cut too much... The reader may feel like saying, "Let her do as she pleases with the poem; it's hers, isn't it?" No; it's much too good a poem for that, it long ago became everybody's, and we can protest just as we could if Donatello cut off David's left leg.”

Ifs Thinking Feels May Long States Seems Left Too Much Cutting Missing Reader Please Legs Protest Long Ago Steeples Donatello

Author:Randall Jarrell

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