That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments. — Daniel Okrent Copy Share Image
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
A beginning must be made somewhere and corner by corner, department by department, space by space, all will be known and conquered.… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I enjoy a good cliffhanger. As a reader, I relish that nervous feeling you get when you're engrossed in a story, but… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
Never call your broker on Monday. Out of courtesy and common sense, wait until Tuesday. A good broker is focused on the… — Nancy Dunnan Copy Share Image
Right after the keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Shuffle, I went backstage with one question in mind: What makes… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Manipulators rarely advise you to seek new and diverse information or to learn and research for yourself, it tends to be safer… — Teresa Stover Copy Share Image
The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I don't believe that many things are impossible to achieve so long as you put your mind to it and take the… — Cynthia Erivo Copy Share Image
I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
“There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was always fraught… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Open the curtains of your mind! If there is light outside, it will come in; if there is light inside, it will… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together -… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches… — Anna Olson Copy Share Image
She’d already decided to be with him. If only to wipe him from her mind, get him out of her system and… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet,… — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe,… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
“respond rather than react to situations, people or environment. Let go of limiting emotions such as fear, frustration and anger and start… — Avis Williams Copy Share Image
Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Pursue your goals with all your heart, might, mind and strength. You are doomed to failure if you pursue them in a… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
All I knew about shot putting was that my [older] brother could do 44 feet. I decided I wanted to beat him.… — Bruce Bennett Copy Share Image
Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be… — Wallace Pratt Copy Share Image
![“I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.” quote by Bill Burr](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/8db/bill-burr-1900_asks_i-don-t-mind-either-one-crowd-that-is-mo_2079777.png)
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