He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth. — Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years. — John McGahern Copy Share Image
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see… — Denison Witmer Copy Share Image
I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health. — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
“Kumar was a man who felt in the end he had lost everything, even his Englishness, and could then only meet every… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them;… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
“And if there is any phase of human enjoyment, any part of life, any occupation, avocation, divertisement, pleasure or pain where the… — Samuel G. Blythe Copy Share Image
Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
- With respect, Professor McGonagall, I'm not quite sure you understand what I'm trying to do here. - With respect, Mr. Potter,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
True love is so hard to find, and they say that once you found it you lost your mind. — Capital STEEZ Copy Share Image
He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all. — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I realized if and when I ever put my mind strictly to baseball. I can do some things very few people in… — Pat Connaughton Copy Share Image
If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Tsukuru didn't know what to say. The strength drained out of him. Like water leaking from a small hole in a bag.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. — John Galt Copy Share Image
For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. — John Keble Copy Share Image
There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence. — Dan Wakefield Copy Share Image
Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair. — George Peele Copy Share Image
Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates. — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image