Mind Quotes - Page 652

...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

Your mind gives birth to an action and, whether you like it or not, it will never let it become orphaned

Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar

I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch.

I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.

The phrase 'sodomized by a bratwurst poltergeist' suddenly flew through my mind.

I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if any of them come to mind. Besides, admitting the truth wouldn't sound too good. The truth, Russell, is that now the moment's here, I'm scared shitless. Somehow I don't think even Public Information could turn that into good copy.

My interest really is psychology, what's going on in people's minds as revealed on their faces and in their posture. That is my strength. And it's something that came from probably being a silent observer for most of my life and having to read what was going on in people's minds from only their postures or from their expressions.

How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions of what is sacred and what is profane. When we assume the mind-set that everything is ultimately divine, though sometimes more disguised than others, then we can see that all of our thoughts, impulses, and desires arise from and can bring us back to awareness of the sacred.

God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He rewarding me? Did He actively watch me or take me for granted like a fish you don't notice until it's floating on the surface of the tank?

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Generally speaking, anything that the human mind can conceive can ultimately be produced.

Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.

You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into danger as Saxon and not as pensive of mind as Kenzie. They rely on each other too much. Saxon knows he can afford to be reckless since Kenzie acts as his conscience. And Kenzie can linger in his thoughts and plans, because he knows Saxon can defend him. I tested Kenzie earlier. I wanted to see if he would be swayed by my advice. It took Saxon's coaxing to make up the greyfur's mind. Be compleete with in yourself young redfur...you will never disappoint. Even in solitude.

Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that pains are C-fibres, then I ought no longer to have any room for the thought that 'they' might come apart. His argument is that, since pains aren't identified via some contingent description, but in terms of how they feel, I have no good way of constructing a possible world, so to speak, where C-fibres are present yet pains absent.

I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.

Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.

I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.

It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.

Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit.

An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind

In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.