Mind Quotes - Page 492

The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.

Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.

I think psychology would be an easy transition and figuring out the human mind somehow.

I don't mind being artificial sometimes, because I like veiling myself. I mean, I'm not honest or sincere: I am self-centered and narcissistic. I just want to be this entity.

Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five - just one. So decide what single point you want to leave in the reader's mind.

Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye.

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.

Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.

Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)

A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!

Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed.

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich

Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.