We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies.… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my… — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big… — Mike White Copy Share Image
What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body;… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps,… — John Haines Copy Share Image
...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems.… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
...and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its… — John Noble Wilford Copy Share Image
My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Discipline of mind and body is one of the most difficult things one has to acquire, but in the long run it… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“As one who wills, and then unwills his will, Changing his mind with every changing whim, Till all his best intentions come… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I've been hooked on films ever since I can remember renting VHS tapes. But who got me hooked? I think life did.… — Jaime Zevallos Copy Share Image
If your mind is open to opposing ideas, your intelligence will go up. If your mind is closed to opposing ideas, your… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think the tendency with parents is to make your kid not unlike the next kid but to overprotect and say, "My… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
You can feel very strongly that someone doesn't like you. I think any model who didn't have the same sort of upbringing… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
“Living in a world where constantly one turned and touched incomprehension—they did not comprehend, he did not comprehend—gave the air the lift… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket,… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
Stop," I said. "Please do not further endorken yourself to me. You have great hair and a car that is most fly,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Forgiving ourselves for all the woulda-shoulda-couldas in life, and sometimes forgiving others for actions that we feel undercut or undermine our good,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“Kohlrabi’s face had no expression at all, and suddenly Mosca could barely recognize him. His face had always seemed so honest, like… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
