Thinker50 Quotes & Sayings

If you're able to think, then I'm not doing this right."
"You're doing okay, but you can always try harder."
"Harder I can do," he murmured against her neck, and he did just that. — Kate Perry

Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias. — Paul Krugman

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list. — Umberto Eco

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel. — Charles Hodge

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them. — John F. Kennedy

Women were important and respected in Iroquois society. Families were matrilineal. That is, the family line went down through the female members, whose husbands joined the family, while sons who married then joined their wives' families. Each extended family lived in a "long house." When a woman wanted a divorce, she set her husband's things outside the door. — Howard Zinn

I'd bet a month of dawn patrols those apprentices had something to do with it," Birchfall meowed. "Why else would they disappear back to ShadowClan without their mother?"
Dustpelt let out a snort of amusement. "I can just picture those three holding Blackstar down until he agreed. — Erin Hunter

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters. — Thomas Merton

It was a battle, Jack realized, between the composite psyche of the school and the individual psyches of the children, and the former held all the key cards. A child who did not properly respond was assumed to be autistic-that is, oriented according to a subjective factor that took precedence over his sense of objective reality. And that child wound up by being expelled from the school; he went, after that, to another sort of school entirely, one designed to rehabilitate him: he went to Camp Ben-Gurion. He could not be taught, he could only be dealt with as ill. — Philip K. Dick