Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Killing a bunch of people in Sudan and Yemen and Pakistan, it's like, "Who cares - we don't know them." But the… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Well, you know, the mind is nothing. The mind is only a bunch of thoughts. Thoughts about the past and the future,… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Immediately after graduating, with honors, from Emory University in the summer of 1990, McCandless dropped out of sight. He changed his name,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Why would one's identity be a matter of feelings? I think that that's a misuse of terms, philosophically. Identity is mind independent.… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Having made up my mind, I went to see Steve [Jobs]. I brought a hand-drawn sketch with me, and I said, "Please… — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
If you play basketball, you get into the zone. You can't miss. That's the expansive mindset we're all seeking. But that only… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
“Mind, in the way I use the word, is not just thought. It includes your emotions as well as all unconscious mental-emotional… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
There is a way of the Spirit unknown to the natural mind. No barrier can keep you from finding His best except… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
“And this man, who during three long decades had not once remembered that the world contains lilac bushes - and pansies, sandy… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
When I hear music I want to engage in it. Even if I engage in it very quickly and turn it off… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It would be inadmissible if I would vent my opinion publicly. Not only could I harm the artist concerned seriously because people… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The American president has particular power. This makes Trump the most dangerous man in the world. He's equally dangerous because of his… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
The leaders of Europe always seem to emerge from the same elite, the same general frame of mind, the same schools, and… — Viktor Orban Copy Share Image
I knew that I was not doing anything wrong, and I knew in my mind I was doing the right thing. I… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
“My body felt like tangled rubber bands and dried-out pens and sticky paper clips, like the contents of a drawer where you… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims.… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I've been in, like, kids' clubs... I've been in the Boom Boom Room in New York, and the kids are going, 'Oh… — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people,… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
“What seemed delicacy in him was usually a way of avoiding trouble; what seemed like sympathy was the instinct to prevent trouble… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He sat leaning forward in the seat with his elbows on the empty seatback in front of him and his chin on… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have… — Patricia Rae Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image