Quotes About Thoughtful

Liberal democracy relies on resilient, civic-minded citizens who think themselves to be members of a tolerant and safe community.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

Because of the power of neuroplasticity, you can, in fact, reframe your world and rewire your brain so that you are more objective. You have the power to see things as they are so that you can respond thoughtfully, deliberately, and effectively to everything you experience.

I don't really have a shell. I'm really not as quiet as people think I am. I'm really not that quiet. But I don't know, I would say I'm more observant.

melancholy.

Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing.

He knew it was perfect, and perfectly beautiful. He thought about how much she would like it. When he thought like that, happiness swelled up warm within him.

something that's so thoughtful on the outside you say, 'Oh, wow, it must be really thoughtful

Constitutionalism as a guiding political tendency will require careful and thoughtful development, as did jurisprudential originalism. But its wide appeal and philosophical depth make it a promising first step to a conservative future.

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.

He found identity and status in the possession of things. Liam was quiet, thoughtful, slow to speak, and always gave away more than he took in.

It's not arrogance. [Tamilians] are quiet people.

I've always thought of myself as a kind person. Not saintly but generously thoughtful (in a bitchy sort of way). (...)

the sheer number and breadth of medical conditions that vary in lifetime risk by birth month should be enough to make a thoughtful person rethink a wholesale rejection of careful astrological thinking.

He spoke slowly; I had a sense he was groping between words for the thread of his own thoughts.

He hadn't changed since I had seen him a few years earlier. With his close-cropped black beard, angular features, and riveting gaze, Craig still looks the role of a serious scholar. He speaks in cogent sentences, never losing his train of thought, always working through an answer methodically, point by point, fact by fact.

Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In this sense it is the very essence of philosophy and science.

i want to be friends with people who are honest and interesting, generous but not ridiculous, thoughtful but who don't have irritating voices

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.