Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in relativity when making movies. Relativity, in my mind, meaning "Light to dark, big to small, good to… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
These days people don't think with their mind, soul and heart.. They say shit to us and then they realize they were… — Mindy Morin Copy Share Image
I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You choose to shine with the light of your own divinity, or you hide it with the shadows you create in your… — Nirmalananda Copy Share Image
I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If the audience lets that stuff wash over them, you know - almost like music, rather than dialogue - and doesn't fight… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his… — Forrest Gander Copy Share Image
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Never mind what makes Canadas constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is]… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
Jiu-jitsu puts you completely in the moment, where you must have a complete focus on finding a solution to the problem. This… — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I was reading some books by Michel Houellebecq, and the first thing that comes to mind is that they're really funny, all… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God,… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
“Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit,… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
To change your mind about something is always difficult. I think that people who are big enough to admit they were wrong… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it… — Doug Collins Copy Share Image
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“Step forward or step back. Each beat of his heart swayed him between decisions. A beat of courage. A beat of fear.… — Tricia Mingerink Copy Share Image
The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
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