In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies.… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big… — Mike White Copy Share Image
What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body;… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps,… — John Haines Copy Share Image
...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems.… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
...and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its… — John Noble Wilford Copy Share Image
Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“But he also knew that, as much as he wanted to aid and console the soldier, he wanted to be alone in… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“But the more he strained to think, the clearer it became to him that it was undoubtedly so, that he had actually… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society.… — Willis Harman Copy Share Image
It 's amazing how Allah made the mind to the point where we almost alike me and you, we almost see the… — Rakim Copy Share Image
It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Although one never really knows what one's associates think of one deep down, I believe I was easy to work with, even… — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
“Kohlrabi’s face had no expression at all, and suddenly Mosca could barely recognize him. His face had always seemed so honest, like… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind.… — Chelsea Peretti Copy Share Image
Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“But most of all, as summer slanted to an end, he was learning to love idleness, idleness no longer as stretches of… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
