Heads Quotes
1306 Heads quotes by 1053 unique authors
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All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on…
— Homer
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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.
— Jane Austen
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It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. If we are directed from Washington (heads of an organization) when to sow…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads…
— C.S. Lewis
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There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks…
— George Eliot
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You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes…
— Ray Bradbury
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God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.
— Ted Dekker
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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as…
— Leo Tolstoy
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When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry…
— C.S. Lewis
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A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good…
— Neil Gaiman
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Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend…
— Arundhati Roy
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He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet.…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no…
— Mary Roach
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I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you…
— Ray Bradbury
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The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear.…
— Joe Hill
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Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Off with their heads!
— Lewis Carroll
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That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their…
— Charles Dickens
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Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when…
— Robert Kennedy
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No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.
— Jim Cymbala
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All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially…
— Octavia Butler
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I have learned that newborn infants roll their eyes around and move their heads and their arms in short jerky spasms. And if you homeschool…
— John Hodgman
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