Minded Quotes
814 quotes by 702 authors
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The…
— Richard Dawkins
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I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle…
— A.A. Attanasio
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How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a…
— Daniel Keyes
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Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that…
— Henry James
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If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness…
— Pablo Neruda
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Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in…
— Herman Melville
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A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as…
— Jane Austen
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Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest…
— Tara Bray Smith
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When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad.
— Tom Bissell
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It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
— P.D. James
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
— Aristotle
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Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the…
— Sarah Vowell
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Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced…
— Scott Westerfeld
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In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to…
— Dean Koontz
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Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.
— Tucker Max
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Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
— Stella Gibbons
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He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....
— Truman Capote
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However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,†flag…
— Sarah Vowell
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