- Contributing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What people see the first family do has an effect. And from a slightly different aspect, I think that family living in the White House is going to have a profound effect on many Americans.
- Death Penalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?
- Conduit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.
- Despised
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
- Foreign Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020