Famous quotes containing the word thinking:
“I keep thinking that what I need
to do is buy my leg back.
Surely it is for sale somewhere,
poor broken tool, poor ornament.
It might be in a store somewhere beside a ladys scarf.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other peoples minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”
—Elizabeth Gaskell (18101865)
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