Mind Quotes · Page 272

“You are blessed with a good mind. You just have to have confidence in it and talk when people call on you.”

— Ned Vizzini

It takes a constant effort of mind to avoid the abundance that life offers naturally.

— Stuart Wilde

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

— Anne Lamott

A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my…

— Winona Ryder

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

— George Sand

So if you don't mind my sayin' I can see you're out of aces.

— Kenny Rogers

A Compassionate state of mind brings inner peace, and therefore a healthier body.

— Dalai Lama

There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.

— Tom Ridge

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in…

— Caio Fonseca

It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up,…

— Kurt Warner

Success is the inner satisfaction and peace of mind that come from knowing I did the best I was capable of doing…

— Jim Tressel

It strikes me as very odd for someone to think, 'You know what, if I put on a bikini, I may shift…

— KT Tunstall

I don't mind looking foolish but it's just that I'm so bad at singing. The only time people ask me to sing…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it…

— Garrett Fort

Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you;…

— Anonymous

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow…

— Margaret Mead

It upset me that, five days after the hurricane hit down in New Orleans, the President's plan was for a day of…

— Jon Stewart

As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any…

— Otto Hahn

There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless…

— Dale Dauten

Throughout his career, Bloomberg has repeatedly shown blatant disrespect for individual rights and civil liberties. The first thing that comes to mind…

— Kat Timpf

My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned…

— James Hillman

He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his…

— Neal Shusterman

Leaders are visionaries. They see the outcome. Leaders are communicators. They tell us what they're seeing. They hold the dream, letting us…

— Susan Collins

Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a…

— Ken Dryden

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol.

— Roberto Cavalli

I will say and I will do things that no one else in their right mind would do.

— Stephen Miller

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

— James Madison

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

— Toni Morrison

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent

— Archibald MacLeish

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

— Jason Ellis

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

— Alessandro Baricco

“Keep an open mind, but no so open that your brains fall out”

— James Oberg

I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.

— Tony Blair

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

— Benjamin Franklin

Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind.

— Doreen Virtue

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

— Rivka Galchen

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

— Charles Lamb

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

— Pink

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

— John Locke