Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Dalai Lama

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

Dalai Lama

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

Sophie Swetchine

The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.

Rajneesh

Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.

Norman Douglas

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

Norman Cousins

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.

Paul Weller

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.

John Piper

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

Marianne Williamson

Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.

Mason Cooley

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

Marvin Minsky

We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.

Michael Chabon

[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.

Patti LaBelle

I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.

Michel de Montaigne

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

Jerome K. Jerome

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Jason Momoa

I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.

George Santayana

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.

Helen Keller

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

George Eliot

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Isabel Lucas

I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.

Isaac Watts

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

Isabel Allende

Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.

Irving Babbitt

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

Maurice Ager

Honestly, it was in the back of my mind. But at the same time, I know I'm an athlete. I know what I can and can't do.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.

George Best

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

Gena Showalter

She’d already decided to be with him. If only to wipe him from her mind, get him out of her system and stop the fantasies plaguing her. If only to prove to herself that being with him would not be pleasurable for her.

Frederick Wiseman

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

J. I. Packer

If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.

Jack Nicklaus

There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts.