Mind Quotes · Page 254

You've got to stop going back and forth. You've got to make up your mind.

— Michael Angarano

“He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.”

— Arthur Golden

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.

— Joseph Joubert

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

— Robin Sharma

If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie…

— Frederick Lenz

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

— Tony Hillerman

“The typical American, after he has lost the foundations of his existence, works for new foundations.”

— Paul Tillich

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else…

— Ron White

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their…

— Howard Nemerov

I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives…

— Dan Hill

The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and…

— Edward Gibbon

They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make…

— Owen Hart

I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just…

— Ashley Scott

I honestly believe that if I decided to be the president of the United States, I could do it. That might sound…

— Will Smith

There's no one who can teach you except yourself. Each of us needs to look at what our belief system really consists…

— Byron Katie

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts…

— Kate Beckinsale

“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject…

— Plato

I actually take images of things and put them up around the wall and in a room. I set a room aside.…

— Wesley Snipes

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of…

— James MacDonald

Pray unceasingly that all denial be stripped from your mind. Pray that something miraculous be born within us all. Give everything you…

— Ann Mortifee

Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are…

— John Locke

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

— Anonymous

We must condition the players. They need to get into the right frame of mind in the hours leading up the game.

— Didier Deschamps

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

— Carson McCullers

Silence is a power only in the hands of enlightened minds, but weakness in the mind of helpless persons.

— Anuj Somany

If we don't occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide.

— Shenhui

I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.

— Dolly Parton

You know, some people take peace of mind and confuse it with lack of passion.

— Rob Van Dam

“All of it remained, a constant reminder: He existed, then he didn't. The world spins on, indifferent to the mess.”

— J Courtney Sullivan

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

— Theodore Dalrymple

“The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.”

— Plutarch

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

— Margaret Oliphant

Flood your mind continually with pictures of the health, happiness, and prosperity that you desire.

— Brian Tracy

I'm very conscious of the luck I've had. It's important to have this in your mind and remember it.

— Astrid Berges-Frisbey

... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ...

— Mary Wollstonecraft

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

— Paul Valery