Minded Quotes
814 quotes by 682 authors
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The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.
— Truman Capote
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Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.
— John Green
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Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me.…
— Charlaine Harris
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Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done,…
— Warren G. Bennis
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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third,…
— Jeff Lindsay
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Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer of milk to…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too…
— Mark Twain
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By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.
— Russell Brand
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I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck
— Charles Simic
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I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I…
— Victor Hugo
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We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that…
— Michael Shermer
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Then he continues his rant,saying, "And even if I didn't know them, I know their type." "And what type is that?" she asks,leaning foward in…
— Emily Giffin
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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
— Louisa May Alcott
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But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.
— David Nicholls
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Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice…
— David Nicholls
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...the Rule of Agreement reminds you to “respect what your partner has created†and to at least start from an open-minded place. Start with a…
— Tina Fey
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I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's…
— Cassandra Clare
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