Mind Quotes - Page 515

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.

Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly... perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness--the ache of the uprooted plant.

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating, second, that however bizarre and arcane our world might be, nature remains potentially comprehensible to the human mind.

The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works

If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations all night.

Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to be suspicious of ideas and suspicious of your own mind at the same time. It's often a matter of orchestration and pacing. Of shaping some kind of dialectic flow.

I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes.

Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.

As you walk through forests or the meadows of your mind, Stop and talk to those you fear Good friendships you may find

Join me in standing up against any actual knowledge about guns. Let the CDC know they can take away our ignorance when the pry it from our cold dead minds.

It warps the minds of our children and weakens the resolve of our allies.

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?

Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.

The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

[Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to whatever they wanted, and then peel off their own shirts. It took great presence of mind to bargain with a half-naked Frenchwoman.

A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.

The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind.

You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!