Mind Quotes - Page 575

Chance favours a prepared mind.

The sooner the world solves its economic problems, the sooner its inhabitants can afford leisure and peace and get on with the non-material things that are inherently important: the work of mind and spirit that is gloriously and uniquely human, the work that no machine can ever do.

All that I would like to be is human, having a share in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted community where the mind is given its due but the body is not distrusted

We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.

The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing.

I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are.

I had seen Orange Is The New Black show on Netflix and the first thing that came to my mind was, "Why am I not on this show? It's just irritating me right now." So I made some phone calls and told them, "I want to be on your show." And they found a spot for me.

We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income.... Bear this truth always in your mind, that you may be admired for your wit, if you have any; but that nothing but good sense and good qualities can make you be loved.

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.

Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.

O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.

The mind of a drunken fool is a useless tool.

I don't mind a gut. In fact, I would prefer a guy to have a gut than be too built.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

When I have it in mind, I write it out.

A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting-- no, never mind, I was on my deathbed in the not-too-distant past, and even then I had the devil's own itch for my wife." -Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent