Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence Nightingale

Can the "word" be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

Florence Nightingale

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.

Florence Nightingale

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

Flann O'Brien

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

Fiona Apple

My mind goes to tragedy first.

Henry Miller

The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

Henry Miller

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

Henri Frederic Amiel

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? of mind.

Jeffrey Rosen

[Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take the time to inform ourselves about the best arguments on all sides of questions so that we can make up our own minds.

Jean Chatzky

In most cases, if you've gotten to this point, you've already received a letter or phone message from your creditor with the name and extension of a representative. If you haven't, you can call the toll-free number on your bill, but keep in mind that the person who answers may not have the power to negotiate a settlement. Ask to speak to someone who is either a supervisor or in the settlement department, if the creditor has one (as many do).

Jean Chretien

To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.

Jean Houston

Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.

James Carville

Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.

James Agate

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

James Agate

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

James Agee

I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for it; and is not free speech here as elsewhere clamped down on in ratio of its freedom and danger?

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.

George Harrison

I've got my mind set on you. But it's gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money, it's gonna take plenty of money.

Gary Carter

The only thing on my mind now is getting that World Series ring.

Gary Busey

Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.

Fritz Weaver

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

Fuzzy Zoeller

A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

Francois Rabelais

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

Francois Rabelais

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

Francois Rabelais

The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.

George Chapman

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

George C. Marshall

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.

Christopher Hitchens

We know that our life is essentially tragic. I'm absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to those who say, "Why didn't you say so before? God has a plan for you in mind."