Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Sidney

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

Philip Sidney

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

Penelope Lively

You have this comet trail of your own lived life, sparks from which arrive in the head all the time, whether you want them or not - life has been lived but it is still all going on, in the mind for better and for worse.

Paulo Coelho

Everything is worship if your mind is focused on the present moment.

Marlee Matlin

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

Marisha Pessl

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

Marianne Moore

In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.

Marianne Moore

The mind is an enchanting thing.

Sherwood Anderson

I'll do something, get into some kind of work where talk don't count. Maybe I'll just be a mechanic in a shop. I don't know. I guess I don't care much. I just want to work and keep quiet. That's all I've got in mind.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Now you know I’m a reporter, so you might as well answer my question truthfully, or I’ll just keep asking it until you lose your mind. (Susan)

Terence

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

Nik Wallenda

The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.

Nicolas Malebranche

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

Nicolas Malebranche

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.

Nicolas Chamfort

Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

Nick Goepper

I try to keep a pretty one-tracked mind.

Nick Frost

My scripts are always heavily noted. If I can take a director to one side and say, "Do you mind if we try this?," a few days before, that's usually a better way of doing it then on the day.

Nassau William Senior

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.

Nas

Your look reflects whats happening in your mind.

N. T. Wright

The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation or simply its steady development, but the drastic and dramatic birth of new creation from the womb of the old.

Mike Murdock

What your mind cannot master it will eventually resent.

Mignon McLaughlin

The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

John Woolman

Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of this World; and in these lowly labors, they who stand in a low place, rightly exercised under the Cross, will find nourishment.

John Ruskin

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

John Quinton

Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.

Mark Twain

a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Mark Twain

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

Mark Twain

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

Marianne Williamson

If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

Marianne Williamson

Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.

Marianne Williamson

We find our happiness to the extent to which we use our minds to bless the world, for that is the natural use of the mind. It is the reason we were born.

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.