Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Peter Balkenende

Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.

Jan Morris

Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.

Dalai Lama

The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.

Juvenal

Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender

Evangeline Lilly

Your mind and soul are the kings of your physique way more than any exercise you do.

Charles Fort

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

Charles Fort

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?

We've seen the quality of these other players. I think they play with other objectives in mind than we do. One thing that separates us from them is the unity we have on our team.

Tom Scholz

If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.

Sharon Salzberg

Once in a while, you have to let your mind just go.

Benjamin Franklin

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

Benjamin Franklin

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Benjamin Franklin

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

Benjamin Franklin

Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind

Benjamin Franklin

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

Benjamin Franklin

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

Benjamin Franklin

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

Barbra Streisand

You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.

Avril Lavigne

I only toured for three months. As soon as I got off [tour], I was just dying to start recording, because it was on my mind: 'I've got to make another record now.' And I was totally excited.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There are no fools so troublesome as those of the mind

Arthur Conan Doyle

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

Arthur Conan Doyle

Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

Arthur C. Clarke

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Arthur C. Clarke

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

Arthur C. Clarke

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

Arthur C. Clarke

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

Arthur C. Clarke

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

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. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

Arundhati Roy

Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.