Mind Quotes - Page 360

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.

When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.

An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.

What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more things are secreted the more intriguing they become, because it is always the forbidden that has the strongest appeal. Nudity is a state of fact - lewdity a state of mind.

Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who is afraid of being squashed.

If you don't act now while it's fresh in your mind, it will probably join the list of things you were always going to do but never quite got around to. Chances are you'll also miss some opportunities.

What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking for, or to watching out for, the image that attracts my attention or the phrase or the strange juxtaposition that strikes me bodily, or an odd question or supposition.

Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich. And would you be contemplating an attack, at all?" "It had crossed my mind, I must admit," said Jack. "Indeed, I may go so far as to say, that I am afraid a conflict is now virtually inevitable. Did you notice we have cleared for action?

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]