The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves,… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of 'I can' than 'I should' Technologists love to cram maximum functionality… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
“When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and surrenders willingly to the unguarded… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The moment you frame your own awareness within a second level of self -consciousness is the moment your mind is most up… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours.… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
“Mind is pure and bright in its essence. It is always free from passions and mean desires, just as the sun is… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“No! He tried to shout out but the water surged into his mouth and lungs choking his cry. Then darkness. And nothingness.… — James L. Rubart Copy Share Image
You can call it tathata, suchness. 'Suchness' is a Buddhist way of expressing that there is something in you which always remains… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I'm as flighty as anybody. You put a lot out there. I've been through the process a lot. When I play a… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No… — Terri Runnels Copy Share Image
The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley. George's fingers groped for the side of his head. "Saintlike," he murmured. "What's wrong… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I don't think people were put here to be happy. I think if you decide to be an artist or a writer,… — Jim Steranko Copy Share Image
Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I don't mind violence, but it's quite an interesting thing for people to deal with. I don't know many people that like… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and… — Richie Ashburn Copy Share Image
Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present.… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat… — James Shirley Copy Share Image
Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it.… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
If you could look inside the Heart of any and every single human being, you would fall in love with them completely.… — Mooji Copy Share Image
One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think… — Kingsley Martin Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had… — Virginia Gildersleeve Copy Share Image
I think if the doctor is a good doctor and has a patient's best interest in mind then he's not going to… — Charles Teo Copy Share Image
The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I see you've decided to take my advice after all, Richard." Lady Wendall's amused voice said from somewhere above and behind him.… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image