To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“She can’t explain it. Lines of force, lines of sight, mathematical configurations; all of the knowledge that she needs is in her… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Nervousness and excitement were two sides of the same coin, but Vere still couldn’t make heads or tails of what he was… — Merry Knightly Copy Share Image
I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For those in the conservative movement to think that you're going to change minds only by preaching to the choir, you don't… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
“He’d do anything, absolutely everything for this man, suck him, kill, kill himself, run away, be something else, anything else, everything just… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“The mind complex is that portion of the individual being which reflects (like a mirror) the in-pourings of the spirit and the… — Thomas Vazhakunnathu Copy Share Image
For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
“He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy.… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
I'm curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
We started the 'Rock and Bust' tour without Phil, and it went from there. So it was a slow process for me… — Cliff Williams Copy Share Image
When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
Now you know I’m a reporter, so you might as well answer my question truthfully, or I’ll just keep asking it until… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
You've got to think ahead from what you're about to say. I might be mad at some guy but if I say… — Trevor Bayne Copy Share Image
I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what… — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I tried to imagine how I would have felt as a kid if Shawn Michaels or any WWE superstar would have come… — Kofi Kingston Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
