Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucy Maud Montgomery

When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.

Louis XIV

Only small minds want always to be right.

Louisa May Alcott

Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.

Louisa May Alcott

The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.

John Ford

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

John Fletcher

Great actions speak great minds.

John Fletcher

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

Jonathan Haidt

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Joyce Carol Oates

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

Joyce Carol Oates

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

Justin Vernon

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

Judith Light

I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.

Joseph Murphy

Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it," your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, "I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind."

Joseph Murphy

Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life.

Joseph Hall

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

James Martineau

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

James Madison

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

James Lovelock

Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive.

James M. Barrie

asleep to rummage in their minds

Joe Rogan

I'm a nightclub comic. That's what I do. I work in the clubs uncensored because my mind is uncensored, and those are the thoughts that I have. I do the kind of comedy that I would enjoy seeing.

Joe Rogan

I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.

Joe Rogan

The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

Joe Frazier

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

Joan Halifax

When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

Jimi Hendrix

If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.

Jimi Hendrix

Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.

Erik Erikson

Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter.

Emma Goldman

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

Emma Goldman

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

John McPhee

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

John Jewel

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

John Irving

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

John Irving

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.