Mind Quotes - Page 342

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin

Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves.

and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.

The only thing that can stop you is the doubt that you carry in your mind.

And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

I honestly believe that if I decided to be the president of the United States, I could do it. That might sound foolish to some. But in my mind, if Ronald Reagan can become president, why not Will Smith?

Facebook: What's on your mind? ..Twitter: What's happening? Myspace: Where did everybody go?

You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened

Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know.

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind.

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.