His Mind Quotes
692 His Mind quotes by 529 unique authors
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For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage.…
— George Orwell
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Romeo wouldn’t change his mind. That’s why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers
— Stephenie Meyer
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The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his…
— C.S. Lewis
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It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.
— Christopher Paolini
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There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock…
— Gene Roddenberry
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His heavy-lidded gaze reflected a languor that had nothing to do with having just awakened, and there was no doubt what was on his mind.…
— Karen Marie Moning
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The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind,…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him…
— James Joyce
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To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only…
— Bertrand Russell
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His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises…
— J M Coetzee
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You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind.…
— Albert Camus
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There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark:…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is…
— Alan Watts
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He took each fact as it came and let it slip painlessly into the back of his mind, thinking, Okay, okay, I'll think about that…
— Richard Yates
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he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind,…
— Suzanne Collins
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He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he…
— Ayn Rand
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Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in…
— Sylvia Plath
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Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and…
— Flannery O'Connor
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PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
— Arthur Miller
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Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry…
— Mario Puzo
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Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.
— Charlotte Bronte
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People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain climber what he…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one…
— Christopher Isherwood
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