Thought Provoking Quotes

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

All dreams continue in the beyond.

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

We don't always get the journey we want. But we always get the journey we need.

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.

But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?

If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and shoulders above the rest.

I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.

Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.

I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

Intelligence and genius

Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.

"Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices."

Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

Meaningful relationships are two-way, and that means constantly looking for ways to improve your customers' lives.

I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.