His Mind Quotes
692 His Mind quotes by 529 unique authors
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How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley. George's fingers groped for the side of his head. "Saintlike," he murmured. "What's wrong with him?" croaked…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was…
— Gregory Maguire
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In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code…
— Ayn Rand
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He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
— George Orwell
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If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.
— Cormac McCarthy
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He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though…
— Nicholas Sparks
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There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his…
— Ayn Rand
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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of…
— Vita Sackville-West
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Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.
— Herman Melville
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Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is…
— Ayn Rand
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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his…
— Wendell Berry
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Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his…
— Stuart Hill
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The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the…
— Brian Aldiss
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Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.
— William Goldman
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He had never missed God or the hope of heaven, but he had dearly wanted confession to rest his mind, Communion to let him touch…
— Peter S. Beagle
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I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was…
— Jodi Picoult
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No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a…
— Irving Stone
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As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind…
— Dante Alighieri
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These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I have one final hope, If I get double sixes, maybe he will change his mind, come back to me. As if to cast a…
— Emily Giffin
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't…
— John Steinbeck
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