Quotes and Sayings about Thoughtful
"Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way."
- Tom Brokaw
(Related: Thought, Thoughtful)
"Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror."
- Richard Burr
(Related: Action, Congress, Help, Mission, Terror, Will)
"The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it."
- Tom Coburn
(Related: Purpose, American, Country, Danger, Now, Public, Right, Senate, Thoughtful)
"The lonely become either thoughtful or empty."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Lonely, Thoughtful)
"There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement."
- Robert Creeley
(Related: Being, Nothing, Prose, Sense, Thinking, Thoughtful)
"I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am."
- Howard Dean
(Related: Environment, Thoughtful)
"The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise."
- Roger Ebert
(Related: Movies, Ambition)
"Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner."
- Bob Ehrlich
(Related: People, Thoughtful)
"It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them."
- Robert. L. Ehrlich
(Related: People, Public, Service, Thoughtful)
"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Experience, Being, Culture, Reading, Thoughtful)
"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."
- Desiderius Erasmus
(Related: Men, Nature, Mother, Evil, Thoughtful)
"I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"
- Harrison Ford
(Related: Being, Mind, Questions, Thoughtful)
"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: People, Public, Thoughtful)
"It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order."
- Asa Gray
(Related: Men, Attitude, Christian, Beliefs, Order, Thoughtful)
"As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble."
- Emmylou Harris
(Related: People, Thoughtful, Trouble)
"The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future."
- Dee Hock
(Related: Future, Investment, Learning, Now, Testing, Understanding, Want)
"People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: People, Care, Thoughtful)
"There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process."
- Mike Johanns
(Related: Decisions, Risk, Support, Thoughtful)
"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."
- Omar Khayyam
(Related: Soul, Solitude, Thoughtful)
"Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America."
- John L. Lewis
(Related: America, Future, Labor, Thoughtful, Voice, Workers)
"To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow."
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
(Related: Life, Content, Thoughtful)
"If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading."
- Richard Lugar
(Related: Success, Life, Importance, Reading, Thoughtful)
"Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes."
- Mary Martin
(Related: Habit, Thinking, Thoughtful, Wishes)
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
(Related: Change, Doubt, Thoughtful, World)
"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
(Related: Change, People, Thoughtful, World)
"I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take."
- James P. Moran
(Related: People, Thoughtful, Trying)
"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
- Sandra Day O'Connor
(Related: Liberty, Religious, Thoughtful)
"Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked."
- Little Richard
(Related: Time, People, Beginning, Gay, Thoughtful, World)
"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: Thoughts, Actions, Mankind, Mind, Thoughtful)
"Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations."
- Elihu Root
(Related: Men, Women, Interest, Judgment, Nations, Thoughtful, World)
"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Love, Thoughtful)
"I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics."
- Peter Singer
(Related: Ethics, Thoughtful)
"The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds."
- John Lancaster Spalding
(Related: Faith, Doubt, May, Mind, Respect, Thoughtful)
"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire."
- Leland Stanford
(Related: Interest, Labor, Promises, Thoughtful)
"People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue."
- John Sununu
(Related: People, Talk)
"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring."
- Prince William
(Related: Life, Caring, Principles, Thoughtful)
"Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking."
- Wendell Willkie
(Related: War, Home, Ideas, Americans, Fight, Thinking, Thoughtful, Today)
"It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning."
- Ron Wyden
(Related: Legal, Purity, Thoughtful)