Famous Quotes & Sayings

Homer

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

If I can't do it myself, then I'm not going to do it. When I'm retired, I want them to at least be able to say, 'There's no question in our minds that he did it the right way.' I have kids. I don't want them to think their dad's a cheater.

Stevie Wonder

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Steven Moffat

Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.

Steven Pressfield

You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind.

Steven Morrissey

I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my lesson, I never left an impression on anyone.

Steven Morrissey

Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno...

Steven Pinker

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit.

Steven Pinker

the mind is a neural computer

Steven Pinker

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

Susan Jeffers

By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success.

Sue Grafton

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

Robert Browning

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Robert Browning

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

Robert Browning

As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.

Richard Steele

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do

Richard Steele

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Richard Mitchell

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

Richard Hell

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

Richard Hamming

Luck favors the prepared mind.

Red Skelton

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

Samuel Alexander

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

John Carroll

The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.

John Calvin

No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot.

Joel Kinnaman

We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. [And] it's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

Joe Hill

He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple.

Joan Osborne

It's not just something that you do intellectually when you do music. You do it with your body, and you do it with your emotions, and you do it with every part of yourself. It engages your mind as well, but engages all parts of yourself.

Joan Rivers

I don't mind aging, I just don't want to be a day older.

Gabrielle Roy

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

Gabriela Sabatini

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

Gabriela Sabatini

I didn't know what was going through my mind.

Frankie Valli

I do belong to Jersey. There's no doubt about that in my mind. They have been so loyal and so good to me, how could I possibly belong any place else?

Francois Fenelon

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.