Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carlin

Have you ever started a path? No one seems willing to do this. We don't mind using existing paths, but we rarely start new ones. Do it today. Start a path. Even if it doesn't lead anywhere

George Carlin

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

Gene Simmons

Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

Garry Winogrand

Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

Frederick Buechner

I am such a person of words. I've spent so much of my life trying to get it right, say it right, say it eloquently, say it truthfully, say it honestly, that when I hear it said in ways that none of those adverbs would describe I find myself so repelled that it almost shuts my mind off.

Felix Baumgartner

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in 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.

Helen Keller

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

Helen Keller

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

Cat Power

We can all be free Maybe not with words Maybe not with a look But with your mind

Catharine Beecher

If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.

Cassandra Clare

Clary: Now that I'm in your mind, want to see some mental pictures of Jace? Simon: I heard that and NO... You've seen him naked? Clary: Well not entirely but- Simon: Enough

George Eliot

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

George Eliot

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

George Eliot

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

George Eliot

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

Franz Schubert

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

Frank Knight

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

Francoise Sagan

What you call types of mind are only mental ages.

Frank Auerbach

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

George Herbert

Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

George Herbert

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

Christian Wiman

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

J. B. Priestley

A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.

J. C. Ryle

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

Isabel Lucas

I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.