Thoughtful Quotes - Page 27

• To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

  George Tenet

  Patience, Iraq, Care

  Speech of CIA Director George Tenet at Georgetown University, www.americanprogress.org. February 5, 2004.

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• If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources.

  Ronald Reagan

  Past, Common Sense, Challenges

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

  Richard Dawkins

  Matter, Born, Turns

  Twitter post from May 22, 2014

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• Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Maturity, Hair

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• True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love Is, Decision, Feelings

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

  David Walker

  Eye, Giving, Mind

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• Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement, and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Children, Technology

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• Bill Moyers is everything I never aspire to be: Calm, Thoughtful, and Informative.

  Stephen Colbert

  Bills, Calm, Informative

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• BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE.

  Michael Bierut

  Choices, Choices You Make, Infinite

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• Be smart, be thoughtful, be generous.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Smart, Being Smart, Generous

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• Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.

  Steve Backley

  Opportunity, Perspective, Different

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• Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.

  Phoebe Cates

  Party, Dinner, Way

  "Perfect Gifts, According to Phoebe Cates". abcnews.go.com. June 01, 2006.

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• I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say, 'I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I'm splitting my ticket for you.' They're more engaged and thoughtful than we give them credit for.

  Wendy Davis

  People, Giving, Voting

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• Our real calling to be a compassionate Christian came when we stepped out of the waters of baptism… We don’t need a bishop’s assignment to be kind. We don’t need to sign up to be thoughtful. We don’t need to be sustained by our wards to be sensitive.

  Chieko N. Okazaki

  Christian, Real, Water

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• It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog - you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.

  Steve Pavlina

  Funny, Ambition, Healthy

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• I got £25. My friends all gave me £5. It was a very thoughtful present.

  Robert Pattinson

  My Friends, Very Thoughtful

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• Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Wise, Independent, Thinking

  Quoted by Z. Chafee Jr. in Atlantic Monthly, January 1955.

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• Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.

  Aaron Swartz

  Inspirational, Funny, Life Changing

  "I Hate the News" by Aaron Swartz, www.aaronsw.com. October 20, 2006.

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• Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Spiritual, Love Life, Phrases

  Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents of her pantry, the smell of her kitchen, the song that escaped from her sometimes parched lips, her thoughtful repose and pregnant laughter - are all worthy of art.

  August Wilson

  Mother, Song, Art

  August Wilson (1997). “Seven Guitars”, p.10, Penguin

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• If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of a family. His lips must be strong enough to smile, firm enough to say no, and tender enough to kiss. Love must be so deep that it takes its stand in Christ and so wide that it takes the whole lost world in. He must be active enough to save souls. He must be big enough to be gentle and great enough to be thoughtful. His arms must be strong enough to carry a little child.

  Ruth Graham

  Strong, Children, Kissing

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• We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Confused, Voice, Long

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.

  Nikki Haley

  Country, Jobs, War

  "Gov. Nikki Haley in No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.

  Bill Mollison

  Stress, Focus, Design

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• Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Heart, School, Fate

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