Mind Quotes - Page 613

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

a local train ... moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind.

Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.

First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

So what are you really wearing?" The words left her mouth before she could consider them. She winced. He didn't seem to mind; in fact, he flashed her one of his brief smiles. "And if I said nothing at all?" "Then I would point out that sometimes, if you look at something out of the corner of your eye, you can see right through glamour," she returned. That brought surprised laughter. "What a relief to us both then that I am actually wearing exactly what you saw me in this afternoon. Although one might point out that in that outfit, your last concern should be my modesty.

To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.

When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.

I don't really want to force anyone to feel a specific way, but if they can keep their body and mind "floating" with my music, that pleases me.

You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.

It wasn't until 1998 that I ever seriously thought about running for office. And I didn't make up my mind to do that until 1999, and then I ran for the Senate. It was really hard for me.

I still support the right of local communities to make up their own minds about whether or not they want to permit fracking.

I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it`s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what`s on their minds.

I'm really lucky to have the kind of people I've got around me. I've got such a great group of predominantly young people, but so diverse, and they bring different perspectives to the table. They will tell me exactly what's on their mind.

I do agree that in particular, Turkey and the Gulf nations have got to make up their minds. Are they going to stand with us against this kind of jihadi radicalism or not? And there are many ways of doing it. They can provide forces. They can provide resources. But they need to be absolutely clear about where they stand.

[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.

If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go. There is so much else in the world that is more interesting.

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set.

What we need to do, however, is figure out what our best available theories of the mind suggest about epistemological issues, while we recognise that we may need to change our views on these questions as new evidence comes in.