“Optimism is in short supply in the Middle East, but what I do think is the administration needs to step up its act. We should use military strikes against ISIS when they threaten the Shia areas or Baghdad. We need to accelerate very rapidly, and we have ways to do it, aid to the Syrians, and we need to be more active, with results, not simply inputs. That is absolutely important right now, because people are questioning our will, not our capabilities.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 946 of 4756
“A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.”
“I have a very personal view of what I want in a café. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about what other people want. I have my enthusiasms, and it's exciting to work through them in this medium of coffee bars.”
“I think of everything that I want to say and then I think of the way that I can say it most precisely. And this has to do with poetry too, to me, that poetry helps me focus on the details of language.”
“People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.”
“I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.”
“I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.”
“I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.”
“I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.”
“I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.”
“On a good bargain think twice.”
“He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]”
“He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.”
“Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks.”
“I think the main thing that we have to do is try and train ourselves to remember from moment to moment that God is living within us and within everybody else, and just trying to remember to see that.”
“I think Prabhupada's accomplishments are very significant; they're huge. Even compared to someone like William Shakespeare, the amount of literature Prabhupada produced is truly amazing. It boggles the mind. He sometimes went for days with only a few hours sleep. I mean even a youthful, athletic young person couldn't keep the pace he kept himself at seventy-nine years of age.”
“Although Christ, in my mind is an absolute Yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ.”
“That was the thing about Prabhupada, you see. He didn't just talk about loving Krishna and getting out of this place, but he was the perfect example. He talked about always chanting, and he was always chanting. I think that that in itself was perhaps the most encouraging thing for me. It was enough to make me try harder, to be just a little bit better. He was a perfect example of everything he preached.”
“Most of the world is fooling about, especially the people who think they control the world and the community. The presidents, the politicians, the military, etc., are all jerking about, acting as if they are Lord over their own domains. That's basically Problem One on the planet.”
“George: [On the 'Two Virgins' cover] 'What I thought of the sleeve then was the same as I think now: it's just two not-very-nice-looking bodies, two flabby bodies naked. It's harmless, really - different strokes for different folks.”